Strategic Development Projects (Amendment) Act 2011

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

Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged

s 1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Strategic Development

Projects (Amendment) Act, No. 12 of 2011 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on January 1, 2011.

s 2Amendment of section 2 of the Strategic Development Projects Act, No. 14 of 2008

Section 2 of the Strategic Development Projects Act,

No. 14 of 2008 is hereby amended by the substitution for all the words from “to which exemptions’ to the words” be granted :” of the following :—

“to which may be granted from time to time, exemptions either in full or part, from the applicability of the provisions of one or more of the enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act or such other assistance or facilitation as may be necessary to attract strategic investment, in the national interest.”.

s 3Amendment of the Schedule to the Act

The Schedule to the Strategic Development Projects

Act, No. 14 of 2008 is hereby amended, by the addition immediately after item 8 of the Schedule, of the following new items :—

“9.

The Nation Building Tax Act, No. 9 of 2009.

10. The Ports and Airports Development Levy Act,

No. 18 of 2011.”.

s 4Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency

In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.