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Widowers' And Orphans' Pension (Amendment) |
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| AN ACT TO AMEND THE WIDOWERS' AND ORPHANS' PENSION ACT | | |
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| BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :- | |
[28th December , 1998 ] |
Short title. | 1. This Act may be cited as the widowers' and Orphans' Pension (Amendment) Act, No. 65 of 1998. | Amendment of section 12 of Act No 24 of 1983. | 2. Section 12 of the Widowers' and Orphans' Pension Act is hereby amended by the insertion, at the end of that section, of the following proviso :- | | " Provided however, that a male orphan or an unmarried female orphan, of the age of twenty-one years or more shall, so long he or she is unemployed, be entitled to the allowance or pension until he or she attains the age of twenty-six years.". | Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency. | 3. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. | |
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