National Minimum Wage of Workers (Amendment) Act 2021

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s 1Short title

This Act may be cited as the National Minimum

Wage of Workers (Amendment) Act, No. 16 of 2021.

s 2Amendment of section 3 of Act, No. 3 of 2016

Section 3 of the National Minimum Wage of Workers

Act, No. 3 of 2016 is hereby amended in subsection (1) thereof by the substitution for the words, “shall be ten thousand rupees and the national minimum daily wage of a worker shall be four hundred rupees” of the words, “shall be twelve thousand five hundred rupees and the national minimum daily wage of a worker shall be five hundred rupees.”.

s 3Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency

In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.