View All - 2000 Acts Section No : Acts & Ordinances SUPPRESSION OF UNLAWFUL ACTS AGAINST THE SAFETY OF MARITIME NAVIGATIONMarginal Notes1. This Act may be cited as the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation Act, No. 42 of 2000 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister, by Order published in the Gazette, certifies as the date on which the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation adopted in Rome on March 10, 1988, (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention'') enters into force in respect of Sri Lanka.2. Convention states. 3. Offences. 4. High Court to try offences under this Act. 5. Rights of certain persons arrested for offences under this Act. 6. Amendment to the Extradition Law. No. 8 of 1977. 7. Existing extradition arrangements with convention States deemed to provide for offences in the Schedule. 8. Minister may treat Convention as an extradition arrangement between Sri Lanka and certain convention States. in respect of offences in the Schedule. 9. Assistance to convention States. 10. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency, 11. Interpretation.