Excise (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Act 2006

This Act may be cited as the Excise (Special

The provisions of this Act shall for all purposes be deemed to have come into operation on November 17, 2006.

Section 5 of the Excise (Special Provisions) Act, No.

13 of 1989 is hereby amended in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of that section, by the substitution for the words “an amount equal to five percentum” of the words, “an amount equal to ten percentum”.

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