4. Amendment of section 1 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails.

Section 1 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -

(1)

by the substitution for the words and figures “section 4, section 9,”, wherever such words and figures appear in that section, of the words and figures “section 4, section 5, section 9,”;

(2)

in subsection (2) of that section -

(a)

by the repeal of the first proviso to that subsection and the substitution therefor, of the following proviso: -

“Provided that, prior to making such

Order, the Minister shall be satisfied that –

(a)

the Preliminary Transfer Plan has been prepared by the Power

Sector Reforms Secretariat;

(b)

the national electricity policy as part of the national policy on energy including the national tariff policy have been prepared

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by the Minister and approved by the Cabinet of Ministers; and

(c)

the Annual Power Procurement

Plan and the Long Term

Generation

Expansion

Plan and Long Term Transmission

Development

Plan have been prepared by the Ceylon

Electricity Board which shall be applicable until the Long Term

Power System Development

Plan prepared by the National

System Operator comes into effect.”;

(b)

by the repeal of second proviso to that subsection;

(3)

by the repeal of paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following paragraph: -

“(b) the dates from which each Electricity Market specified in subsection (2) of section 30 shall come into operation under subsection (1) of section 30.”;

(4)

in subsection (5) of that section, by the substitution for all the words from “be placed before Parliament:”

to the end of that subsection, of the following words: -

“be placed before Parliament.”; and

(5)

by the addition immediately after subsection (5) of that section, of the following subsection: -

“(6)

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2), if no appointed date is published in the Gazette as required by that subsection

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even though the Minister is satisfied that the requirements in the proviso to that subsection have been met, the provisions of this Act, other than the provisions of this section, section 2, section 3, section 4, section 5, section 9, subsection (1)

of section 10, paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 10, subsection (3) of section 10, subsection (5) of section 10, section 14, section 15, section 17, section 18, section 38, section 39 and the sections specified in subsection (4) of this section shall come into operation immediately upon the expiry of four months from the date on which this subsection comes into operation.”.

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