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| Save The Nation Contribution (Amendment) |
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| AN ACT TO AMEND THE SAVE THE NATION CONTRIBUTION ACT, No. 5 OF 1996 | | |
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| BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:- | |
| [23rd December , 1997 ] |
Short title.
| 1. This Act may be cited as the Save The Nation Contribution (Amendment) Act, No. 38 of 1997. | Amendment of the long title of Act No. 5 of 1996.
| 2. The long title of the Save the Nation Contribution Act, No. 5 of 1996 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal enactment") is hereby amended by the substitution, for the words and figures, "FOR EVERY QUARTER OF THE YEARS COMMENCING RESPECTIVELY ON APRIL 1, 1996 AND ON APRIL 1, 1997", of the words and figures, "FOR EVERY QUARTER OF THE YEAR COMMENCING ON APRIL 1, 1996 AND FOR EVERY QUARTER OF EVERY YEAR COMMENCING ON OR AFTER APRIL 1, 1997". | Amendment of section 3 of the principal enactment.
| 3. Section 3 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution, for the words and figures, "the years commencing respectively, on April 1,1996 and on April 1,1997", of the words and figures, "the year commencing on April 1, 1996 and of every year commencing on or after April 1, 1997". | 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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