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As enacted

6. Amendment to section 7 of the principal enactment

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

Section 7 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of that section by the addition immediately after sub-paragraph (vi), the following new sub-paragraph :—

“(vii)

the provision of services to overseas buyers by a garment buying office registered with the

Ministry of Industries under the supervision of the Textile Quota Board established under the

Textile Quota Board Act, No. 33 of 1996, where payment for such service is received in foreign currency, through a Bank in Sri Lanka insofar as such services are identified by the

Commissioner-General as being services essential for facilitating the export of garments to such overseas buyers.”.

“The value of the goods imported.