3. Amendment of section 4 of the principal enactment

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

Section 4 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-

(a)

by the insertion immediately after paragraph (g) of that section, of the following paragraphs :–

“(h) to make grants and pay subsidies under contracts to private sector establishments, to conduct specific training programmes in compliance with Development Plans ;

(i)

to undertake research and development activities in vocational education and training;

(j)

to establish and maintain a labour market information systems for collecting,

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information for the purposes of planning, and providing vocational guidance, in the field of vocational education and training ;

(k)

to establish and maintain systems for quality assurance in vocational education and training including standards in respect of occupational skills, training programmes, testing and quality management systems,”;

and

(b)

by the relettering of paragraph (h) of that section as paragraph (l) of that section.

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