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15. Amendment of section 82 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Section 82 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section as follows: -

(1)

by the re-lettering of that subsection as paragraph (a) of that subsection; and

“Effect of crossing a cheque with words.

Act, No. 13 of 2025

(2)

by the addition immediately after the re-lettered paragraph (a) of that subsection, of the following new paragraph: -

“ (b) A banker shall not be treated for the purpose of paragraph (a) as having been negligent by reason only of his failure to concern himself with the absence of, or irregularity in, indorsement of a cheque.”.

Read on from s 16