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Amends the Citizenship ActOfficial translation, read from a scanFrom Department of Government Printing's scanned PDF, read by OCR; may contain errors
This Act may be cited as the Citizenship (Amendment) Short title.
Act, No. 43 of 1993.
The following new section is hereby inserted imme-Insertion diately after section 13 of the Citizenship Act, (hereinafter of ew section 13a referred to as “the principal enactment”) and shall have in Chapter effect as sertion 13a of that Act :—
Immigrants and Emigrants Act valid for a
Resid ent period of five years and has been registered guest e in a Resident Guest Scheme approved hy the
Government for foreign investors and pro-fessionals may, on his making application in that behalf to the Minister, in the prescri-b.d manner, be registered as a citizen of
Sri Lanka if the Minister is satisfied—
{a\ that-—
he has made a substantial con-tribution to the economic deve.
lopment of the country
; or
he has made a significant contri-bution to the social and cultu-ral life of the country in the fields of science, education, medicine, archaeology, music, literature, agriculture or en-tertainment
; and
that he has been resident in Sri Lanka for the prescribed period and is, or intends to continue to be, ordinarily resident in Sri Lanka.
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