Words starting with D

document of title

Defined in Secured Transactions Act 2024, s 75

“means a writing issued by, or addressed to a bailee, that - (a) covers goods in the bailee’s possession that are identifiable or that are fungible portions of an identifiable mass; and (b) is in the ordinary course of business, treated as …”

documentation

Defined in Construction Industry Development Act 2014, s 67

“means preparation of tender and bidding documents including bills of quantities, contract documents, drawings and specifications and any document pertaining to tenders or contracts”

documents

Defined in Anti-Corruption Act 2023, s 162

“include information recorded in any form and, in relation to information recorded otherwise than in legible form, references to its production including references to producing a copy of the information in legible form”

domestic asset

Defined in Inland Revenue Act 2017, s 195

“means – (a) an asset owned by a resident person (other than foreign land or buildings or an asset held by a foreign permanent establishment of the person) or held by a Sri Lankan permanent establishment; (b) an interest in land or a …”

domestic industry

Defined in Safeguard Measures Act 2018, s 41

“means the producers as a whole of products which are like or directly competitive with the investigated product operating within the territory of Sri Lanka, or those producers operating within the territory of Sri Lanka whose collective …”

domestic like product

Defined in Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 2018, s 85

“means the product produced in Sri Lanka which is a “like product” to the investigated product, and includes any agricultural product or livestock product”

domestic violence

Defined in Prevention of Domestic Violence Act 2005, s 23

“means— (a) an act which constitutes an offence specified in Schedule I; (b) any emotional abuse, committed or caused by a relevant person within the environment of the home or outside and arising out of the personal relationship between …”

domiciled in a country

Defined in Reciprocal Recognition, Registration and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act 2024, s 23

“means domiciled in terms of the law of that country”

donee

Defined in Inland Revenue Act 2006, s 217

“means any person who acquires any property under a gift, and where a gift is made to a trustee for the benefit of another person, includes both the trustee and the beneficiary”

donor

Defined in Inland Revenue Act 2006, s 217

“means any person who makes a gift”

drug dependant person

Defined in Drug Dependant Persons (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act 2007, s 23

“means a person to whom this Act applies”

Also defined in 1 other Act

Drug Inspector

Defined in National Medicines Regulatory Authority Act 2015, s 146

“mean any person with prescribed qualifications appointed as a drug inspector by the Authority”

dumping

Defined in Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 2018, s 85

“means introduction to the commerce of Sri Lanka a product at a price which is less than its normal value”

Also defined in 1 other Act

dumping margin

Defined in Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 2018, s 85

“means the difference between the export price and the normal value, expressed as a percentage of the export price, as it results from the comparison of the two in accordance with the provisions of this Act”

dwelling

Defined in Sri Lanka Electricity Act 2009, s 61

“means a building or part of a building occupied or (if not occupied) last occupied or intended to be occupied, as a private dwelling”