10. Section 98 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:—

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

(1)

by the substitution, for all the words from “In addition to the powers vested” to the words “ shall have the following powers:—” of the words

“Notwithstanding anything in any other law, a

Magistrate’s Court in the exercise of any juris-diction conferred on such court by this Ordinance shall have the following powers :—”

;

(2)

in subsections (1), (2) and (3) of that section, by the substitution, for the words “Rural Court”

wherever those words occur in those subsections, of the words “ Magistrate’s Court”; and

(3)

by the substitution, for the marginal note to that section, of the following marginal note :—

“Powers of

Magistrate’s Court”.

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