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AN ACT TO ENABLE EFFECT TO BE GIVEN TO CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS.
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| Ordinance Nos, |
| 45 of 1968 |
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[14th December
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the United Nations Act,
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Measures under Article 41.
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(I) If, under Article forty-one of the Charter of the United Nations* signed at San Francisco on the twenty-sixth day of June, Nineteen hundred and forty-five.(being the Article which relates to measures not involving the use of armed force) the Security Council of the United Nations call upon the Government of Sri Lanka to apply any measures to give effect to any decision of that Council, the Minister in charge of the subject of Foreign Affairs may by regulations make such provision as appears to him necessary or expedient for enabling those measures to be effectively applied, including (without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this subsection) provision for the apprehension, trial and punishment of persons offending against the regulations.
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(2) Every regulation made under the
preceding provisions of this section shall,
forthwith after it is made, be tabled in
Parliament.
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(3) Any expenses incurred by the
Government of Sri Lanka in applying any
such measures as are referred to in the
preceding provisions of this section shall be
defrayed out of moneys provided by
Parliament for the purpose.
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* Article 41 of the Charier of the United Nations ;-
41. The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations.
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| Chapter 10 |
