Section 3

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

Licensing of Shipping Agents, Freight Forwarders, Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers, and Container Operators Act, and the Shipping Agents, Freight Forwarders, Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers, and Container Operators to be known as the Licensing of Shipping Agents, Freight Forwarders and Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers Act, and the Shipping Agents, Freight Forwarders and Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers respectively

(1)

In the principal enactment and in any other written law, there shall be substituted –

(a)

for the words, “Licensing of Shipping

Agents, Freight Forwarders, Non -

Vessel Operating Common Carriers and

Container Operators Act”, of the words

“Licensing of Shipping Agents, Freight

Forwarders and Non-Vessel Operating

Common Carriers Act”; and

(b)

for the words, “Shipping Agents, Freight

Forwarders, Non - Vessel Operating

Common

Carriers, and

Container

Operators”, of the words “Shipping

Agents,

Freight

Forwarders and

Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers”.

(2)

Every reference to the “Licensing of Shipping Agents,

Freight Forwarders, Non - Vessel Operating Common

Carriers and Container Operators Act” in any notice, notification, contract, communication or other document shall be read and construed as a reference to the “Licensing of Shipping Agents, Freight Forwarders and Non-Vessel

Operating Common Carriers Act”.

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