3. 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 (3) thereof, by the substitution for the words “sixty-one years” of the words

“sixty-three years”; and

(2)

by the repeal of subsection (4) thereof and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:-

“(4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public and Judicial Officers

(Retirement) Ordinance (Chapter 355), the age of retirement of all other Judges and

Magistrates shall be sixty-two years.”.