Fiscal Management (Responsibility) (Amendment) Act 2013

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 and date of operation

This Act may be cited as the Fiscal Management

(Responsibility) (Amendment) Act, No. 15 of 2013 and shall be deemed to have come into operation from January 1, 2013.

s 2Amendment of section 3 of Act, No. 3 of 2003

Section 3 of the Fiscal Management (Responsibility)

Act, No. 3 of 2003 is hereby amended as follows :—

(a)

in paragraph (e) of that section, by the substitution, for the figures and words “4.5 per centum ;”; of the figures and words “7 per centum ;”; and

(b)

in paragraph (f) of that section, by the substitution, for the words and figures “January 1, 2006”, “eighty-five per centum” and “January 1, 2013”, of the words and figures “January 1, 2013”, “eighty per centum”

and “January 1, 2020” respectively.

s 3Sinhala 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.