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| Civil Procedure Code (Amendment) |
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| AN ACT TO AMEND THE CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE | | |
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| BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :- | |
| [4th October , 2002 ] |
Short title.
| 1.This Act may be cited as the Civil Procedure Code (Amendment) Act, No. 20 of 2002. | Replacement of section 495 of Chapter 101.
| 2.Section 495 of the Civil Procedure Code (hereinafter referred to as the "principal enactment") is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor : | "Co-defendant may be appointed. | 495. A co-defendant of sound mind and of full age with no interest adverse to that of the minor may be appointed guardian for the action, but a plaintiff cannot be so appointed." | | Amendment of section 544 of the principal enactment.
| 3.Section 544 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section | (1) by the repeal of paragraph (b) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following paragraph ; | "(b) any share in a company registered in terms of the Companies Act, No. 17 of 1982 or established under any written law for the time being in force ; or"; and | | | (2) by the addition at the end of that subsection of the following | | For the purposes of this section "share" shall have the same meaning as in the Companies Act, No. 17 of 1982. | | Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.
| 4.In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. | |
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