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3. Insertion of new sections 6A and 6B in the principal enactment

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

The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 6 of the principal enactment and shall have effect as sections 6A and 6B of that enactment:-

6A. (1) The Registrar-General shall prepare and maintain a register containing such information as may be prescribed in respect of every express trust created in compliance with section 5.

(2)

The trustee of any immovable or movable property in respect of an express trust, shall forward to the Registrar-General for the purpose of subsection (1), all such information relating to the trust, as may be prescribed.

6B. (1) The Registrar-General shall, on a request made by the Financial Intelligence

Unit, or by any other authority with the written sanction of the Financial Intelligence Unit, provide to the Financial Intelligence Unit or such other authority any information relating to any express trust, kept in the register maintained under section 6A.

(2)

For the purpose of subsection (1), the

Financial Intelligence Unit shall be the

Financial Intelligence Unit that may be designated under the Financial Transactions

Reporting Act, No. 6 of 2006.”.