View All - 1991 Acts Section No : Acts & Ordinances PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF CRIMES AGAINST INTERNATIONALLY PROTECTED PERSONSMarginal Notes1. This Act may be cited as the Prevention and Punish ment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, Act, No. 15 of 1991 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 on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Inter nationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, signed in New York on December 14, 1973, (hereinafter referred to as " the Convention") enters into force in respect of Sri Lanka.2. Minister to certify convention countries. 3. Offences against Internationally protected persons. 4. Evidence. 5. Jurisdiction of High Court to try offences under this Act. 6. Rights of certain persons arrested for offences under this Act. 7. Amendment of Extradition Law, No. 8 of 1977. 8. Existing extradition arrangements deemed to provide for offences in the Schedule 9. Minister may treat Convention as an extradition arrangement between Sri Lanka and Convention country in respect of offences in the Schedule. 10. Interpretation. 11. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.