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6. Amendment of section 20 of the principal enactment

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

Section 20 of the principal enactment is amended as follows:-

(1)

in subsection (1) thereof, by the substitution for the words “No child or young person who has not attained the age of 16 years” of the words “No child”;

(2)

in subsection (2) thereof, by the substitution for the words “No person who has attained the age of fourteen years but is under the age of eighteen years”

of the words “No young person”; and

(3)

in subsection (4) thereof, by the substitution for the words “a person who has attained the age of sixteen years but is under the age of eighteen years” of the words “a young person”.

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