4. Amendment of section 6 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails.

Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:—

(1)

by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:—

“(1) The Minister shall appoint in consultation with the Board, a person having at least twelve years of demonstrated professional and applied experience as a geologist or a mining engineer with a postgraduate degree or Charter as the Director General of the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau.”;

(2)

in subsection (2) of that section by the substitution for all the words from “the Director of Geological

Survey and Mines” to the words “principal technical officer” of the words “The Director-General of the

Geological Survey and Mines (hereinafter referred to as the “Director-General”) shall be the Chief

Executive Officer and principal technical officer,”;

and

(3)

in subsection (3) of that section by the substitution for the worlds “a period of six years” of the words

“a period of three years”.

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