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7. Amendment of section 6 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the addition immediately after subsection (4)

of that section of the following new subsection:-

“(5) Where a Certificate of Absence has been issued under section 8E in respect of a missing person a Certificate of Death shall not be issued in relation to the same missing person until the cancellation of the Certificate of Absence.”.