27. Amendment of the Fee. Charging Employment Agencies Act…

Agencies Act, No. 37 of 1956, is hereby repealed.

Act, No. 37 of 1956, is hereby amended by the substitution for the definition of “fee-charging employment agency ”, of the following definition :—

‘“ fee-charging employment agency” means any individual, firm or company who or which,

Foreign Employment Agency with the view to deriving directly or indi-rectly any pecuniary or other material advan-tage (whether such advantage be profit, a fee or other pecuniary or other material advan-tage), from an employer or worker, acts as an intermediary for the purpose of procuring employment in Sri Lanka for a worker or of supplying an employer for employment in Sri

Lanka with a worker, but does not inculde any individual, firm or company who or which recruits seamen or publishes or causes to be published any newspaper or other publication unless that newspaper or other publication is solely or mainly concerned with the aforesaid purpose ;’.