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2. Amendment of section 10 of Chapter 424,

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

Section 10 of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act is hereby amended by the repeal of the definition of “Fund

Agreement” and the substitution therefor of the following definition

:—

‘«Pund Agreement” means the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund as originally adopted and as subsequently amended—

(a)

in order to institute a facility based on Special

Drawing Rights

(the text of which amendment was laid before the House of Representatives on

November 23, 1968); and 2—D 020780-—6.980 (91/11)

(b)

in order to establish a new International Monetary

System (which amendment was incorporated in the text of the Articles of Agreement of the Fund laid before the National State Assembly on April 4, 1978) ; and

(c)

in order to provide for the suspension of voting and related rights of a member country which does not fulfil its obligations under such Articles (the text of which amendment was laid before Parlia-ment on October 11, 1991).”.

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