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Home > Struggle for Tamil Eelam > Democracy Sri Lanka Style > Sri Lanka's Laws > Emergency Regulations, 1998
Regulations
1. These regulations may be cited as the Emergency (Prohibition on Publication and Transmission of Sensitive Military Information) Regulations No. 1 of 1998.
2. No Editor or Publisher of a Newspaper or any person authorised by or under law, to establish and operate a Broadcasting Station or a Television Station shall whether in or outside Sri Lanka print, publish distribute or transmit whether by means of electronic devices or otherwise or causes to be printed, published, distributed or transmitted whether by electronic means or otherwise, any material containing any matter which pertains to any operations carried out or proposed to be carried out, by the Armed Forces or the Police Force (including the Special Task Force), the deployment of troops or personnel or the deployment or use of equipment, including aircraft or naval vessels, by any such forces or any statement pertaining to the official conduct or the performance of the Head or any member of any of the Armed Forces or the Police Force.
3. Where any person prints, publishes, distributes or transmits or causes to be printed, published, distributed or transmitted whether by electronic means or otherwise, any matter in contravention of the provisions. of Regulation 2, the Competent Authority may, after issuing such directions as he considers necessary to effect compliance whith the provisions of such regulation make order the press or equipment used for such printing, publication, distribution or transmission shall for such period as is specified in that order not to be used for the purpose of printing, publication, distribution or transmission of any matter referred to in regulation 2 and the Competent Authority may by the same order authorise any person specified therein to take such steps as appears to the person so authorised to be necessary, for preventing the printing, publication, distribution or transmission of any such material.
4. The President may for the purpose of these regulations, appoint, by name or by office, any person or body of persons to be the Competent Authority.
5. Any person who prints, publishes, distributes or transmits. any material in contravention of the provisions of regulation 2 shall be guilty of an offence.
Appointment of Competent Authority
By virtue of the powers vested in me by Regulation 4 of the Emergency (Prohibition on Publication and Transmission of Sensitive Military Information) Regulations, No. 1 of 1998, I, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratuga, President do by this Order appoint Major General J. Nammuni, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army as the Competent Authority for the purposes of the said Regulation.
