2. Replacement of long title to Ordinance No. [3 of 1946

The Town and Country Planning Ordinance, No. 13

of 1946, (hereinafter referred to as “the principal enactment’)

is hereby amended by the substitution for the long title thereof of the following :—

“An Ordinance to authorize the formulation and implementation of a national physical planning policy; the making and implementation of a national physical plan with the object of promoting and regulating integrated planning of economic, social, physical and environmental aspects of fand in Sri Lanka; to provide for the protection of natural amenities, the conservation of natural environment, buildings of architectural and historic interest and places of natural beauty; to facilitate the acquisition of land for the purpose of giving effect to such plan and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the matters aforesaid.”.