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Civil Procedure Code (Amendment)


Published: 1996-07-03

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Civil Procedure Code (Amendment)
Civil Procedure Code (Amendment)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CIVIL, PROCEDURE CODE

BE It enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :

[3rd July , 1996 ]
Amendment.

1. This Act may be cited as the Civil Procedure Code (Amendment) Act, No. 12 of 1996.

Amendment of section 502 of Chapter 101.

2. Section 502 of the Civil Procedure Code is hereby amended the substitution for the words "twenty-one years", of the words "eighteen 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.