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| Prisons (Amendment) |
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| AN ACT TO AMEND THE PRISONS ORDINANCE | | |
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| BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :- | |
| [2nd August , 2005 ] |
Short title.
| 1. This Act may be cited as the Prisons (Amendment) Act, No. 22 of 2005. | Amendment of section 79 of the Chapter 54.
| 2. Section 79 of the Prisons Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as the "principal enactment") is hereby amended as follows:- | (i) by the repeal of paragraph (g) of that section; | | (ii) by the re-lettering of paragraph (h) of that section as paragraph (g) | | Amendment of Section 81 of the principal enactment.
| 3. Section 81 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :- | (1) in subsection (4) of that section :- | (a) by the repeal of paragraph (d) thereof ; and | | (b) by the relettering of paragraph (e) thereof as paragraph (d); | | | (2) by the repeal of subsection (5) and (6) of that section ; and | | (3) by the renumbering of subsections (7) and (8) as subsections (5) and (6) of that section. | | Repeal of section 86 of the principal enactment.
| 4. Section 86 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed. | sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.
| 5. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. | |
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