3. Amendment of section 9 of the principal enactment

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

Section 9 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:–

(1)

by the repeal of subsection (3) of that section; and

(2)

in subsection (4) of that section-

(a)

by the substitution, for the words “Where a young person is brought”, of the words “Where a child who is above the age of fourteen years is brought”; and

(b)

by the substitution, for the words “the young person”, of the words “such child”, wherever those words appear in that subsection.

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