Metric Units (Consequential Provisions) (Amendment) Act 1983

This Act may be cited as the Metric Units (Consequential

Provisions) (Amendment) Act, No. 10 of 1983.

The Schedule to the Metric Units (Consequential!

Provisions) Law, No. 40 of 1978, is hereby repealed and the following Schedule substituted therefor :—

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SNACIMENTS

i. The Electricity Act.

2—A 65669—13,265 (82/05)

¢ SowmzpULE

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1. In column 3 of subsection one of section 13 substitute —

for the figures and words

for the figures and words

for the figures and worde

for the figure and worda

Subject as hereinafter pro-vided, no baker or vendor of bread shali sell any loaf of bread or expose any such loaf for sale, unless the weight of the loaf is clearly marked on the loaf by an impression made in—

in the case of fancy bread or ro'l, of any loaf of bread which is under two hundred and twenty five grammes in weight

in the case of any bread which, in pursuance of any contract or agreement in that behalf, is supplied on any occasion in any quan-tity not less than fifty kilo-grammes and is weighed upon delivery.”.

Renumber rection 10 as subsection (1) of that nance section.

In section 10, insert after the renumbered subsection (1) of that section, the following sub-section :—

Every duty altered or imposed on the basis of any measwement unit under the pro-viso to subsection (1), shall be according to the

“Duties to be paid in Sri Lan-ka currency ac-cording to units of measurements for Sri Lanka.

17. All duties of customs as well as all penalties under the

Ordinance, shal} be paid and received in the serveral descrip-tions of money herein enumerat-ed, and at the rates of exchange

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Metric Units (Consequential Provisions)

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(Amendment) Act, No. 10 of 1983

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BNACTMENTS

Produce of eus-toms duties to be paid in to the

Treasury &c.

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AMENDMENTS specified namely, in British gold or silver money, or in such other description of money and at such rate of exchange as may from time to time be determined by the Minister and according to the units of measurements for

Sri Lanca ; and in all cases, when such duties are imposed and allowed according to any specific quantity or any specific value, the same shall be deemed to apply in the same proportion to any greater or less quantity o€

value ; and the produce of all duties of customs shall be paid by the Collector into the hands of the Deputy Secretary to the

Treasury or to the sub-accoun.

tants of Sri Lanka in such manner and at such periods as

“may be specified by the Minis.

ter,”’.

5. The Housing and

The Schedule to the Ordinance is hereby

Town Tmprove-umended as followa:—

ment Ordinance

41) in paragraph (8) of rule 2.of that Schedule by the substitution for the figure and word “4

feet.”, the figures and word “1.2 metres.”, ;

in rule 3 of that Schedulo—

by the substitution, in paragraph (a) of that rule—

for the figure an word “9 feet” the figures and word ‘2700 millimetres”;

for the figure and word “7 feet”, the figures and word ‘1200 millimetres”;

for the figures and words “90 square fect”, the figures and words

in rule 4 of that Schedule—

in paragraph (1) of rule 5 of that Schedule—

in rule 8 of that Schedule—

Act

%. The Rubber Heplant-ing Subsidy Act.

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Scales to be

16. Every licensed dealer kept in licensed shall keep in his licensed premis-premises.

es scales capable of weighing up to fifty kilogrammes and shall, upon being requested to do so by the Controller or oy an officer authorised by the Controller, cause aby rubber in those premises to be weighed, and shall permit and give every facility and assistance to the

Controller or such authorised officer to compare the weight of the stock of rubber in those premises with the weights ef shown in the record mentioned.

under section 15, .

2. In section 25, substitute, for sub-section (1}

and (2) of that section, tho following subsections:

There shall be charged, levied and paid an export duty on rubber calculated at such rate as may be determined by a resolution of

The amourt of duty imposed onder sub-section (1) of this section may Le varied, or the duty imposed may be rescinded at ary time by

In sub eection (1) of section 52 substitute, for the definitions respectively, of “‘ estate ”

and “‘smaji holding”, the following definitions:s—

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‘“ estate ” means any area of land which is not less than four hectares in extent and on which rubber plants are grown for the purposes of collecting latex therefrom ;

small holding ” means an area of land whick is less than four hectarea in extent and on which rubber plants are grown for the purpose of collecting latex therefrom.”;

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substitute for subsections (1), (2) and (3) of that section, the .ollowing rubsections —

There shall be charged, levied and paid:

Ordinance

Ordinance

Ordinance ll. Fhe Tea Control Act,

No. 51 of 1957

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There shall be charged, levied and paid an export duty as may be determined Ly a recolution of Parliament for every kilogramme of crape rubber exported trom Sri Lanka.”.

Omit subsection (5) of that section,

of that section, the following paragraph :—

“ (5) all waste land which, not being private property, lies within a distance of ten metres of the middle of a public carriageway or cartway ov within three metres of the middle of a public pathway ;”.

2,

In subsection (1) of section 63 substitute for the words “one mile”, the words “ one thour and and six hundred metres ”’.

In paragraph (7) of section 96, substitute for the figures and word ‘ 5,000 feet ” the words

“ one thousand and six hundred metres.”’.

Insection 101, substitute for the figure: and word ‘5,000 ieet”, the words “one thousand and iix hundred metres ”’.

In the First Schedule to that Ordinance, rubstitute, for the words and figures “ twelve acres, three roods and ten perches and seven tenths of a perch (A12 R3 P. 10.7)” the figures and word “ 6.1877 hectares ”’.

In paragraph (c) of section 156, substitute for the figures and word “ 5,000 feet”, the words one thousand and six hundred metres ”.

of that section, the following subsection

;

Every licensed dealor shall keep in his licensed premises, and every manufacturer to whom subsection (3) of this section applies shall keep in his tea factory, scales capable of weighing up to fifty kilogrammus :

In subsection (1) of section 63, substitute, for the definitions respectively of ‘ostate” and

“small holding’, the following definitions :—-

« “ estate moans an area of lend, four hectares or more in extent, on which tea plants are grown for the purposes of harvesting the leaf thereof for conversion into made tea

;

“small holding”? means an area of lend less tLan tour hectares in extent on which tea plants are grown for the purpose of harvesting the leaf thereof for conversion into made tea ;’.

12. The ‘ea and Rubber

Estate (Control

Frugmentation).Act,

No. 2 of 1958 1.

(a)

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In section 8, substitute, for sub section (1) of of that section, the following subsection :—--

The Board shall grant its consent—

if all the lots inte which such estate is to be divided or parti-tioned, or all those lots except such one of them as is not less than fourty hectares in extent, are to be used for an object which is declared to be a housing object by section 2of the Natio-nal Housing Acé, or for any industrial purpuse, or for the development of any town, or for any other prescribed purpuse, or are to be merged with an adjoining tea or rubber estate and the Board is of opinion that such merger will result in the more efficient and economic management of the lands that are merged ;

if, in the opinion of the Board, the agricultural conditionof such estate is already so unsatisfactory that its division or partition into lots is not likely to effect such condition adversely

if each of the lots into ~hich such estate is to be divided or partitioned is not less than two hundred hectares in extent in the

Notwithsatnding any-thing to the contrary in the

Control of Export) (2) and (3) of that section the following saub-Act,No.16 of 1959 sections :—

“Tax on tea which ie sold at a

Colombo tea auc-tion and on tea exported from Sri

Lanka sold at a foreign tea auction.

2. (1) Where any tea—

is sold at a Colombo tea auction

is exported from Sri

For tke purposes of expressing in terms of Sri Lanka currency the price at which a kilogramme of tea exported from Sri Lanka for sale at a foreign tea auction wae sold on any day at such an auction, the rate of exchange shall he the rate of exchange specified under section 17

The deductions which, for the purpose of subsection (1), shall be made fiom the price at which a kilogramme of tea exported from Sri Lanka for sale at a foreign tea auction is sold at such an auction shall be—

the «xport duty and any excess paid in Sri Lanka on that kilogramme of tea, and

the amount fixed by the

In section 5, substitute for subsections

and (2) of that section, the following subsec.

The Commissioner shall, on the basis of the current prices at which tea ia sold at a

Before the issue of a permit under this

In section 7, substitate for the proviso to subsection (1) of that section, the following proviso :—

“ Provided that no permit shall be required for the export ef—

any tea, not exceeding six kilo-grammes in weight, despatched as a gift by parcel post or takes as part of the personal laggage of a passenger on any vessel or aircraft, or

Board Law, No. 14

of 1975.

any tea, sent as commercial samples.”.

in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of that section substitute for the words “at the rate of 1upees twenty five end cents severty only”, the words “tat such rate as may be determined by the Minister by Order published in the Gazette”;

in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of that section substitute for the words “by this section”, the words “‘under this section’.

“estate”, for the words ‘‘ten acres”, the words

“small holding”, for the words “ten acres’, the words “four hectares.”.