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2. Amendment of section 3 of Act…

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

Section 3 of the Employment of Women, Young

Persons and Children Act, No. 47 of 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended as follows:-

(1)

in subsection (3) thereof, by the substitution for the words “male young persons who have attained the age of sixteen years but are under the age of eighteen years ” of the words “male young persons”;

(2)

in subsection (4) thereof, by the substitution for the words “persons between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years” of the words “young persons”; and

(3)

in subsection (5) thereof, by the substitution for the words “persons between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years” of the words “young persons,”.

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