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Part III · General Provisions

17. Language of the documents produced to the court

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

(1)

Where the language of a judgment of a court of a foreign country specified in the Order made under section 2

is in a language other than the English language, such judgment shall be accompanied by a translation thereof in the language used by the registering court as the language of such court and made and signed by an interpreter of the

Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal or the High Court, or by a sworn translator or an interpreter of any District Court,

Family Court, Magistrate’s Court or Primary Court, or by a sworn translator.

(2)

For the purposes of this section, “sworn translator”

means a translator who has taken and subscribed the oath or made and subscribed the affirmation before a District Judge of a District Court of Sri Lanka.

Read on from s 18