Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy (Amendment) Act 2007

This Act may be cited as the Sir John Kotelawala

Defence Academy (Amendment) Act, No. 50 of 2007.

Section 2 of the Sir John Kotelawala Defence

Academy Act, No. 68 of 1981 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:—

“(1) There shall be established a University which shall be called the “General Sir John Kotelawala

Defence University”(hereinafter referred to as the

“the University”).”

In the principal enactment and in any other written law wherever the words “ Sir John Kotelawala

Every reference to the “Sir John Kotelawala Defence

For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that the “General Sir John Kotelawala, Defence University”

established by this Act, shall for all purposes be deemed to be the successor to the “ Sir John Kotelawala Defence

Academy” established by section 2 of the principal enactment.

In the event of any inconsistency between the

Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.