ACT, No. 26 OF 2011

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PARLIAMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF
SRI LANKA
CENSUS (AMENDMENT)
ACT, NO. 26 OF 2011
[Certified on 06th May, 2011]
Printed on the Order of Government
Published as a Supplement to Part II of the Gazette of the Democratic
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of May 06, 2011
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Census (Amendment) Act, No. 26 of 2011 1
[Certified on 06th of May, 2011]
L.D.—O. 4/2010.
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CENSUS ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 143)
BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :-
1. This Act may be cited as the Census (Amendment) Short title.
Act, No. 26 of 2011.
2. The Census Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as the Amendment of
“principal enactment”) is hereby amended in subsection (4) section 5 of
Chapter 143.
of section 5, by the substitution for the words “to a fine not
exceeding ten thousand rupees” of the words “to a fine not
exceeding fifty thousand rupees”.
3. Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed Replacement of
and the following new section is substituted therefor:— section 6 of the
principal
enactment.
“District 6. Every District Secretary, shall in addition
Secretary to to the powers, duties and functions exercised,
be the
performed or discharged by him within the
Commissioner
of Census. Administrative District in respect of which he
is appointed, be appointed as the
Commissioner of Census in respect of such
District:
Provided that the Minister may where it
appears that it is not practicable to appoint the
District Secretary as Commissioner of Census
appoint any other person as Commissioner of
Census for such Administrative District or part
thereof, as the case may be.”.
4. Section 21 of the principal enactment is hereby Amendment of
amended as follows:— section 21 of the
principal
enactment.
(a) in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution
for the words “or to a fine not exceeding ten
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thousand rupees” of the words “or to a fine not
exceeding fifty thousand rupees”;
(b) in subsection (2) of that section, by the substitution
for the words “or to a fine not exceeding ten
thousand rupees” of the words “or to a fine not
exceeding fifty thousand rupees”; and
(c) in subsection (3) of that section, by the substitution
for the words “or to a fine not exceeding ten
thousand rupees” of the words “to a fine not
exceeding fifty thousand rupees”.
Sinhala text to 5. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala
prevail in case and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.
of inconsistency

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