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Prevention of Frauds (Amendment) Act 2022

නිල ඉංග්‍රීසි පරිවර්තනය. සිංහල පාඨය බලපවත්වයි. නිල Sinhala පාඨය විවෘත කරන්න, documents.gov.lk හි නිල PDF

නිල පරිවර්තනයවෙනස් නොකළ පාඨය, Department of Government Printing වෙතින්

s 1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Frauds

(Amendment) Act, No. 30 of 2022.

s 2Amendment of section 2 of Chapter 70

Section 2 of the Prevention of Frauds Ordinance

(Chapter 70) (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended by the repeal of all the words from “shall be of force” to the end of that section and the substitution therefore of the following:-

“shall be in force or avail in law unless –

(a)

the relevant deed or instrument shall be in writing, signed by every executant and attested by a notary public before two witnesses present at the same time; and

(b)

the left or right thumb impression of every such executant or where both thumbs of such executant are missing, the impression of any other finger or the toe impression as the case may be, is affixed above or besides the signature to the original, duplicate and the protocol of the relevant deed or instrument:

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Provided however, in the event the signature or the thumb impression of any such executant cannot be obtained due to any reason, the notary public shall state such reason in the attestation, and such executant shall affix any other finger impression or toe impression, as the case may be.”;

s 3Amendment of section 4 of the principal enactment

Section 4 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-

(1)

by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1);

(2)

by the repeal of all the words from “in the manner hereinafter mentioned;” to the end of renumbered subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the words “subject to the provisions specified in subsection (2);

(3)

by the addition immediately after subsection (1) of that section, the following new subsection: -

“(2) The testator shall –

(a)

sign; and

(b)

affix his left or right thumb impression, at the foot or end of the will, testament or codicil referred to in subsection (1), before a notary public and two witnesses who shall be present at the same time:

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Provided however, in the event the thumb impression of the testator cannot be obtained due to any reason, he shall affix any other finger impression or the toe impression, as the case may be.

s 4Amendment to section 7 of the principal enactment

Section 7 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: –

(1)

by the substitution for the words “signature of the testator or testatrix”, of the words “signature and the left or right thumb impression or any other finger impression or the toe impression as the case may be, of the testator ”;

(2)

by the insertion immediately after that section of the following proviso:-

“Provided however that, in the event the signature or left or right thumb impression or any other finger impression as the case may be, of the testator cannot be obtained due to any reason, the testator shall affix his toe impression and the notary public shall state such reason in his attestation.”.

s 5Amendment to section 16 of the principal enactment

Section 16 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-

(1)

by the substitution for the word “duplicate.” of the word “triplicate.”; and

(2)

by the repeal of the marginal note thereof and the substitution therefore of the following: -

“Deeds to be executed in Triplicate”

s 6Sinhala text to prevail in the case of inconsistency

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

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