Merchant Shipping (Change of Designation) Act 2006

This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping

(Change of Designation) Act, No. 3 of 2006.

With effect from the date of commencement of this

Act, in every context in which “Director of Merchant shipping” appears in—

subsection (1) of section 3 and elsewhere in the Merchant Shipping Act, No. 52 of 1971

any notice, communication, or other document issued, made, required or authorized by or under any written law, there shall be substituted for the words “Director of Merchant

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