ACT, No. 10 OF 2010

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PARLIAMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF
SRI LANKA
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JUDICATURE (AMENDMENT)
ACT, No. 10 OF 2010
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[Certified on 18th August, 2010]
Printed on the Order of Government
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Published as a Supplement to Part II of the Gazette of the Democratic
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of August 20, 2010
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Judicature (Amendment) Act, No. 10 of 2010 1
[Certified on 18th August, 2010]
L. D. —O. 17/2010.
ANACT TO AMEND THE JUDICATURE ACT, NO. 2 OF 1978
Be it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:—
1. This Act may be cited as the Judicature (Amendment) Short title and
Act, No. 10 of 2010 and shall come into operation on such date of
date as the Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette operation.
appoint.
2. Section 4 of the Judicature Act, No. 2 of 1978 is Amendment of
section 4 of Act
hereby amended in paragraph (a) of that section, by the
No. 2 of 1978.
substitution for the words “not more than sixty Judges,” of
the words “not more than seventy-five Judges,”.
3. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala Sinhala texts to
and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. prevail in case
of inconsistency.
2—PL 005076—4,140 (07/2010)

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