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

1.This Act may be cited as the Universities Amendment) Act, No. 24 of 1988, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may appoint by Order publish- ed in the Gazette.

2 Section 25A of the Universities Act, No. 16 of 1978 (hereinafter referred to as the "principal enactment") is hereby amended by the substitution for the words and figures " any Institute not being an Institution referred to in sections 21, 22, 23, 24, 24A and 25 of. this Act, as" of the words " any Institution as ".

3. Section 70c the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution for the words "in respect of an Institute, obtain a report in relation to such institute", of the words " in respect of an Institution, obtain a report in relation to such institution ".

4. Section 147 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution for the definition of " Degree Awarding Institute", of the following new definition

'" Degree Awarding Institute " means any institution recognized under the provisions of section 25A ;"'.