Section 3

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

“Commissioner for the Registration of Persons”, “Register of Persons”, “Identity Cards” and “three copies of the photograph or a photograph” to be known as “Commissioner-General for the Registration of Persons”, “National Register of Persons” , “National Identity Cards” and “photographs”

(1)

In the principal enactment and in any other written law, there shall be substituted –

(a)

for the words “Commissioner for the Registration of Persons”, the words “Commissioner-General for the Registration of Persons”;

(b)

for the words “Register of Persons”, the words

“National Register of Persons”;

(c)

for the words “identity cards”, the words “national identity cards”; and

(d)

for the words “three copies of the photograph or a photograph”, the word “photographs”.

Act, No. 8 of 2016

(2)

Every reference to the “Commissioner for the

Registration of Persons”, “Register of Persons”, “Identity

Cards” and “three copies of the photograph or a photograph”

in any notice, notification or other document shall be read and construed as a reference respectively to the

“Commissioner-General for the Registration of Persons”,

“National Register of Persons”, “National Identity Cards”

and “photographs”.

(3)

Every reference to the “Commissioner” in sections 3, 4,

5, 6, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26,

33, 36A, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 51 and 55 in the principal enactment shall be read and construed as a reference to “ the Commissioner-General for the Registration of Persons”.

Read on from s 4