Words starting with P

package

Defined in National Medicines Regulatory Authority Act 2015, s 146

“includes anything in which any medicine, medical device or borderline product is wholly or partly contained, placed or packed”

paddy land

Defined in Agrarian Development Act 2000, s 101

“means land which is cultivated with paddy or is prepared for the cultivation of paddy or which, having at any time previously been cultivated with paddy, is suitable for the cultivation of paddy, and includes such other land adjoining or …”

paid content

Defined in Online Safety Act 2024, s 52

“means any statement that is communicated in any place upon payment of a consideration”

parent

Defined in Maintenence Act 1999, s 22

“includes an adoptive parent”

participant

Defined in Payment and Settlement Systems Act 2005, s 18

“means a party to an arrangement in respect of a payment system. It may include a bank, a provider of money transmission services or any other person but does not include a user or customer of a participant who instructs or receives payment …”

participating interest

Defined in Petroleum Resources Act 2003, s 34

“means an interest expressed by right to a percentage in the share of petroleum resources recovered and saved under a Development License, and set out in the Petroleum Resources Agreement”

Also defined in 1 other Act

participating interested parties

Defined in Safeguard Measures Act 2018, s 41

“means those interested parties that have indicated their interest in participating in an investigation, in accordance with the provisions of section 11 of this Act”

participating policies

Defined in Regulation of Insurance Industry Act 2000, s 114

“means those policies issued by an insurer which are continually entitled to a share in the surplus arising from such polices. “policy” (a) in relation to long term insurance business, includes an instrument evidencing a contract to pay an …”

parties

Defined in Recognition and Enforcement of International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation Act 2024, s 16

“means the parties to the international settlement agreement in relation to the mediation, and does not include the mediator or mediators conducting the mediation”

partnership

Defined in Inland Revenue Act 2017, s 195

“means an association of two or more individuals or corporations carrying on business jointly for the purpose of making profit, irrespective of whether the association is recorded in writing”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

party interested

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

“means — (i) the exporter or foreign producer of the investigated product; (ii) the importer of the investigated product; (iii) trade or business associations, a majority of the members of which are producers, exporters or importers of the …”

passenger manifest

Defined in Finance Act 2003, s 10

“means a list of passengers authenticated by the operator and carried on board an aircraft during flight or a ship during a voyage, from one destination to another.”

pawnbroker

Defined in Secured Transactions Act 2024, s 75

“shall have the same meaning as given to that term in the Pawnbrokers Ordinance”

pay period

Defined in Inland Revenue Act 2006, s 131

“means a month, week or such other period in respect of which remuneration is calculated and paid by an employer to an employee”

payment

Defined in Inland Revenue Act 2017, s 195

“means the conferring of value or a benefit in any form by one person on another person and includes – (a) the transfer by one person of an asset or money to another person or the transfer by another person of a liability to the one person …”

payment card

Defined in Payment and Settlement Systems Act 2005, s 18

“means any card, plate, coupon book, or other device, including a code or any other means of access to an account, stored value or credit that may be used from time to time to obtain money or to make payment and includes a debit, charge …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

payment device

Defined in Payment Devices Frauds Act 2006, s 32

“means— (a) a credit card and includes any card, plate, code, account number, microchip, optical instrument or document wherein magnetised encoding has taken place; or (b) a device in which account numbers and mandatory or discretionary …”

payment device holder information

Defined in Payment Devices Frauds Act 2006, s 32

“includes, any information imprinted, encoded or embossed on the payment device such as the account number or name or address of the holder thereof”

payment instrument

Defined in Payment and Settlement Systems Act 2005, s 18

“means cheque, draft, money order, traveller’s cheque, payment card or other instrument for the transmission or payment of money or monetary value, whether or not negotiable. The term does not include a credit card voucher, letter of …”

Payment of Gratuity Act

Defined in Debits Tax Act 2002, s 19

“means the Payment Gratuity Act…”

payment system

Defined in Payment and Settlement Systems Act 2005, s 18

“means a system or arrangement for the communication, processing, exchange, clearance or settlement of payment orders and other messages effecting, ordering, enabling, or facilitating the making of payments money transmission, money …”

payment system rule

Defined in Payment and Settlement Systems Act 2005, s 18

“means a rule, by whatever name called, other than one issued by the Central Bank, that governs a payment system, including its operation, clearing and settlement, and includes an amendment to or a repeal of a payment system rule”

peace officer

Defined in Agrarian Development Act 2000, s 101

“has the same meaning as in the Code of Criminal Procedure Act…”

Also defined in 1 other Act

Penal Code

Defined in Energy Supply (Temporary Provisions) Act 2002, s 31

“means the Penal Code”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

Pensioner

Defined in Public Service Pensioners’ Trust Fund Act 1999, s 22

“means a person who is in receipt of pension out of funds provided by the Government _ (a) by virture of his service as a public officer, a mem-ber of the Local Government Service constituted under the Local Government Service Law…”

performers

Defined in Intellectual Property Act 2003, s 5

“means singers, musicians, and other persons who sing, deliver, declaim, play in, or otherwise perform, literary or artistic works or expressions of folklore”

permit

Defined in Foreign Exchange Act 2017, s 33

“means a permit granted to a restricted dealer under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 4”

permit holder

Defined in Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority Act 2007, s 70

“means a person to whom a permit is issued under paragraph (a) of section 25 of this Act to engage in an off-grid renewable energy project”

person

Defined in Financial Transactions Reporting Act 2006, s 33

“means any natural of legal person including a body of persons, whether it has legal personality or not and includes a branch of such person or body of persons incorporated or established outside Sri Lanka”

Also defined in 30 other Acts

person connected to a sport

Defined in Prevention of Offences relating to Sports Act 2019, s 40

“means- (a) any member or an employee of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka established by section 18 of the Sports Law…”