3. For section 17, substitute the following sec-tion:-

“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

,

Metric Units (Consequential Provisions)

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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—