Finance (Amendment) Act 2003

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

Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged

s 1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Finance (Amendment)

Act, No. 4 of 2003.

s 2Repeal of Part I of Chapter I of Act No. 16 of 1995

Part I of Chapter I of the Finance Act, No. 16 of 1995, (section 2) as amended by Act, No. 24 of 1999

(hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby repealed.

s 3Amendment of section 6 of the principal enactment

Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :—

(1)

by the substitution for the words “includes the diesel motor vehicle levy, luxury motor vehicle levy,” of the words “includes the luxury motor vehicle levy,”;

and

(2)

in tshe marginal note to that section, by the substitution for the words “include diesel motor vehicle levy, luxury motor vehicle levy,”, of the words “include luxury motor vehicle levy,”.

s 4Amendment of section 17 of the principal enactment

Section 17 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of the definition of the expression

“specified motor vehicle” and the substitution therefor of the following definition :—

“specified motor vehicle” means any luxury motor vehicle, any semi luxury motor vehicle or any semi luxury dual purpose motor vehicle;”.

s 5Retrospective effect

The amendments made to the principal enactment by this Act, shall be deemed for all purposes to have come into force on October 12, 2001.

s 6Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency

In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.

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