Excise (Amendment) Act 2018

This Act may be cited as the Excise (Amendment)

Act, No. 26 of 2018.

Section 30 of the Excise Ordinance (Chapter 52)

(hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended as follows:—

in subsection (1) by the substitution for the words

in the marginal note to that section for the words

Section 32 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the insertion immediately after paragraph (j) of the following new paragraphs:—

“(ja)

prescribing the types of security features to be affixed on any excisable article when such excisable article is imported, exported, transported, manufactured, sold, possessed or stored;

levying charges for issuing of the security features referred to in paragraph (ja) to be affixed on any excisable article when such excisable article is imported, exported, transported, manufactured, sold, possessed or stored;”.

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