3. Amendment of section 6 of the principal enactment

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

Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-

(1)

by the insertion, immediately after paragraph (j)

thereof, of the following new paragraph:-

“(k) (i) to prevent the import of any tea planting material except under the authority of a Plant Importation Permit issued to the

Director of the Tea Research Institute by the Director General of the

Department of Agriculture under the

Plant Protection Act, No. 35 of 1999

and in the case of export, to issue a phytosanitary certificate on the request of the country of import;

(ii)

For the purpose of this paragraph “ tea planting material” includes any kind of planting material that may be capable of being used directly as propagules including cuttings, shoots, scions, stumps, seeds, in vitro cultures

(micro propagules) or any kind of plant material that can be regenerated to produce plants indirectly, including any form of somatic or reproductive tissue, organ and also germplasm, improved variety, cultivar, wild form of tea from any living portion of any tea plant capable of being used for propagation;”; and

(2)

by renumbering paragraphs (k), (l), (m), (n) and (o)

as paragraphs (l), (m), (n), (o) and (p) of that section.

Read on from s 4