8. Amendment of section 24A of the principal enactment

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

Section 24A of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:—

(1)

in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution in paragraph (b) thereof, for the words “five years,”, of the words “seven years,”; and

(2)

in subsection (2) of that section, by the substitution for the words “period of five years,”, of the words

“period of seven years,”.