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AN ACT TO AMEND THE CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE
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BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :-
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[4th October
, 2002 ]
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Short title.
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1.This Act may be cited as the Civil Procedure Code (Amendment) Act, No. 20 of 2002.
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Replacement of section 495 of Chapter 101.
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2.Section 495 of the Civil Procedure Code (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor :
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“Co-defendant may be appointed.
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495. A co-defendant of sound mind and of full age with no interest adverse to that of the minor may be appointed guardian for the action, but a plaintiff cannot be so appointed.”
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Amendment of section 544 of the principal enactment.
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3.Section 544 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section
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(1) by the repeal of paragraph (b) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following paragraph ;
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“(b) any share in a company registered in terms of the Companies Act, No. 17 of 1982 or established under any written law for the time being in force ; or”; and
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(2) by the addition at the end of that subsection of the following
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For the purposes of this section “share” shall have the same meaning as in the Companies Act, No. 17 of 1982.
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Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.
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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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