Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2 (i) A specific procedure for finding a disappeared person; (ii) A national register of forcibly disappeared persons; 18 19 Measures taken/current situation The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance Act No. 5 of 2018 (Act on Enforced Disappearance) came into force for Sri Lanka on 21st March 2018. (Available at https://srilankalaw.lk/gazette/2018_pdf/05-2018_E.pdf) OMP Neither the Enforced Disappearances Act nor the Office on Missing Persons (Establishment, Administration and Discharge of Functions) Act, No. 14 of 2016, (OMP Act) provides for a specific procedure for finding a disappeared person. The OMP Act provides the OMP with an explicit mandate to clarify the circumstances in which persons went missing and their fate.17 Further the OMP has specific powers to make rules and develop guidelines in order to operationalise its mandate.18 Amnesty (i),(ii): Measures under the mandate of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP), including the set up a database of “missing persons” Centre for Justice and Change OMP still has to set procedure for finding the disappeared. Families of the disappeared Nothing ICJ No specific procedure spelt out in the Act on Enforced Disappearance. However, the Office of Missing Persons Act under Section 12 spells out the Powers of Investigation of the Office, the mandate of which includes the ‘search for the forcibly disappeared.’ OMP As noted in its Interim Report there is no one accepted statistic for the total number of the missing and disappeared in Sri Lanka.19 The OMP recognises the importance of multiple lists of the missing and disappeared compiled by state agencies, commissions of inquiry and civil society. The OMP is charged with the function to create, manage and maintain a database Office on Missing Persons (Establishment, Administration and Discharge of Functions) Act No. 14 of 2016, Section 10. (OMP Act) OMP Act, above n 16, Section 11(b). OMP Interim Report, above n 2, para 11. Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) The Working Group notes that the Act itself does not include a specific procedure for finding persons and does not provide for a register of forcibly disappeared persons. However, it welcomes that the OMP Act provides the OMP with a mandate to search for the forcibly disappeared, that the OMP has been charged with creating a database of missing persons and that a temporary database has been created. See above 21 A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 17 Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2