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6. Amendment of section 10 of the principal enactment

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

Section 10 of the principal enactment as last amended by Act, No. 8 of 2012 is hereby further amended in subsection (1) of that section as follows :-

(1)

by the substitution in the proviso to paragraph (k)

of that subsection, for the words “within one year thereafter.”, of the words “within one year thereafter;”; and

(2)

by the insertion immediately after paragraph (k) of that subsection, of the following new paragraph :-

“(l)

any dividend paid to a shareholder of a company out of such dividend as is referred to in paragraph (j), received by that company, if the first mentioned dividend is paid within three months of the receipt of the second mentioned dividend by that company.”.