Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka Act 1990

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

A bureau gathering and sharing borrowers' credit information

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The Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka Act sets up a credit information bureau. The bureau gathers credit information about borrowers from lending institutions. It gives this information to the shareholders of the bureau. The aim is to help credit reach all sectors of the economy, in particular the informal sector.

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Official translation, read from a scanFrom Department of Government Printing's scanned PDF, read by OCR; may contain errors

s 1Short title and date of operation

This Act may be cited as the Credit Information

Bureau of Sri Lanka Act, No 18 of 1990, and shail come into operation on such date as the Minister may appoint by Order published in the Gazette.

Part I

Establishment of the Credit Information Bureau or Sri Lanka

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Part II

Finance

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