3. Section 20 of the principal enactment is hereby
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Replacement repealed and the following new section substituted therefor :—
Special powers in
Area of
Authority and licensed zones,
20.
of section 20 of the principal enactment
The written laws for the time being specified in Schedule C hereto shall have effect in the Area of Authority and in every licensed zone subject to the modifica-tion that it shall be lawful for the Commis-sion—
{a) to make or issue for the whole or any specified part of the Area of Autho-rity or any licensed zone, any by-law, regulation, order or notification under any such written law ; and
to exercise and discharge in the Area of Authority, any licensed zone or any part thereof, all or any of the powers or functions vested in or assigned to by any such written law in any officer or person, in like manner as though the references in any such written law to the authority, officer or person empowered to make or issue such 2—A 51149—11,700 (80/09)
of new
Amendment
Greater Colombo Economic Commisston
(Amendment) Act, No. 43 of 1980
by-laws, regulations, orders vr notilications or to exercise or discharge such powers ox functions were a reference to the Commis-
2
sion.
The Commission may by rule designate any officer or person to exercise or discharge on behalf of the Commission any power or function referred to in this section.”.