Buddhist Temporalities (Amendment) Act 2013

This Act may be cited as the Buddhist Temporalities

(Amendment) Act, No. 34 of 2013.

The Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended by the substitution for the expression “Commissioner of

Buddhist Affairs”, wherever that experssion occurs in the principal enactment, other than in section 2, of the expression

“Commissioner-General of Buddhist Affairs”.

Section 2 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:—

by the insertion immediately after the definition of

by the repeal of the definition of “Commissioner of

All rights, liabilities and obligations of the

Any act or proceeding commenced under the principal enactment by the Commissioner of Buddhist Affairs and not completed before the commencement of this Act may be continued and completed by the Commissioner-General of

In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.