2. General amendment to Act…

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

(1)

The Science and Technology Development Act,

No. 11 of 1994 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal enactment”) is hereby amended by the substitution—

(a)

for the expression “the Director of the Foundation”

of the expression “the Director-General of the

Foundation”;

(b)

for the expression “the Director of the Technology

Institute” of the expression “the Director-General of the Technologly Institute”;

(c)

for the expression “the Director of the Clarke

Institute” of the expression “the Director-General of the Clarke Institute”;

(d)

for the expression “the Director” of the expression

“the Director-General”; and

(e)

for the expression “the Director of the Corporation”

of the expression “the Director-General of the

Corporation”;

wherever those expressions occur in the principal enactment.

(2)

Every reference to “the Director” made in relation to, the Director of the National Science Foundation established under section 9 of the principal enactment or the Director of the Industrial Technology Institute established under section 17 of the principal enactment or the Director of the Arthur C.

Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies established under section 21 of the principal enactment, in any other written law or in any notice, notification, contract, communication, form, other instrument or document shall, from and after the date of the coming into operation of this Act, be read and construed as a reference made respectively, to the Director-General of the National Science Foundation or the Director-General of the Industrial Technology Institute or the Director-General of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern

Technologies, as the case may be.

Read on from s 3