5. Amendment of section 6 of the principal enactment

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

Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :—

(1)

in subsection (1) of that section —

(a)

by the insertion, immediately after paragraph (v) of that subsection, of the following para-graph :—

“(v a) the Advisor to the President on Scientific

Affairs

; "; and

(b)

by the substitution, in paragraph (vi) of that section, for the words “three persons”, of the words “two persons”;

(2)

by the substitution, for the expression “Academic

Council” wherever that expression occurs in that section, of the expression “Research Council”.

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