2. General Amendment to Act…

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

The Tobacco Tax Act, No. 8 of 1999 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended in the principal enactment as follows :—

(a)

by the repeal of the expression “cigarette substitute”, wherever that expression occurs in such enactment ; and

(b)

by the substitution for the words “tobacco leaf”, wherever that words occur in such enactment of the words “tobacco leaf or beedi tobacco”.