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8. Amendment of section 5 of the principal enactment

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

Section 5 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:—

(1)

by the substitution for the words “watercourse in a reserved forest” in the section and in the marginal note to that section of the words “watercourse in a

Conservation Forest or Reserved Forest”;

(2)

by the substitution for the words “Government

Agent” in the first proviso and second proviso respectively to that section, of the words

“Divisional Secretary”.