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2. Amendment of section 3 of Act…

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

Section 3 of the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, No. 28 of 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended as follows :—

(1)

by the insertion immediately after paragraph (a) of that section of the following new paragraph :—

“(aa)

the Secretary or in the absence of the Secretary, the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of the

Minister.”;

(2)

in paragraph (c) of that section by the substitution for the words “nine other members” of the words

“ten other members”.