View All - 2000 Acts Section No : Acts & Ordinances PREVENTION OF HOSTAGE TAKINGMarginal Notes1. This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Hostage Taking Act, No. 41 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 International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (hereinafter referred to as ''the Convention") adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on the Seventeenth day of December One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy Nine, enters into force in respect of Sri Lanka.2. Convention States, 3. Offence of hostage taking & c4. High Court to try offences under this Act. 5. Right of certain person arrested for offence under this Act. 6. Amendment to Extradition Law. 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 of convention state. 10. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.