5. Amendment of section 9 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails.

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

(1)

by the insertion immediately after subsection (1)

of that section, the following new subsection :—

“(1A) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (c) of subsection (1), the eligibility requirement specified in that paragraph shall not be applicable to a company which, on the date of the coming into force of this Act, is operating a plant to generate electricity over and above the generation capacity of 25MW, having a valid power

Purchase Agreement executed with the Ceylon

Electricity Board and which is in operation on the date preceding the date of the coming into force of this Act :

Provided that the non applicability of the eligibility requirements in respect of a company as provided for by this subsection, shall be in operation only during the period of duration of the Power Purchase

Agreement referred to in that subsection.”; and

(2)

in paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of that section, by the substitution for the words “the Government holds more than”, of the words “the Government or a public corporation holds more than”.

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