7. Amendment of section 9 of the principal enactment

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

Section 9 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-

(1)

in subsection (1) of the section, by the substitution, for the words “a contributor shall be entitled”, of the words “a contributor shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (1A), be entitled”; and

(2)

by the insertion immediately after subsection (1) of that section of the following subsection:-

“ (1A) A contributor who is certified, by a Medical

Practitioner registered under the Medical Ordinance, to be mentally retarded and who has commenced to contribute to the Fund before reaching the age of thirty five years shall be entitled to a pension on reaching the age of forty years”.

Act, No. 33 of 1999

Read on from s 8