20. Amendment of section 163 of the principal enactment

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

Section 163 of the principal enactment as amended by Act, No. 9 of 2008, is hereby further amended as follows :—

(1)

in subsection (1) of that section, by in substitution for the word “September” wherever such word appear in that subsection, of the word “November”:

and

(2)

in subsection (5) of that section:—

(a)

by substitution in paragraph (a) of that subsection, for words “thirtieth day of

September” and for the words “expiry of eighteen months”, of the words “thirtieth day of November” and of the words “expiry of a period of two years”, respectively ; and

(b)

in paragraph (b) of that subsection, by the substitution for the words “three years”, of the words “four years”.

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