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AN ACT TO AMEND THE NATIONAL DEFENCE FUND ACT, No. 9 OF 1985
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BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :”
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[3rd March
, 1991 ]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the National Defence Fund (Amendment) Act, No. 10 of 1991.
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Amendment of section 3 of Act No. 9 of 1985.
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2. Section 3 of the National Defence Fund Act, No. 9 of section 1985, (hereinafter referred to as the: principal enactment “) is hereby amended in subsection (2) of that section, by the substitution, for paragraph (b) of that subsection of the following paragraph:”
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” (b) the Minister in charge of the subject of Finance, and “.
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Amendment of section 13 of the principal enactment.
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3. Section 13 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution, for the words “national security,” of the word “Finance. “.
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Insertion of new section 14A in the principal enactment.
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4. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 14, and shall have effect as section 14A of the principal enactment: ”
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“Application of Inland Revenue Act. No. 28 of 1979 to the Fund.
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14A. The Fund shall be deemed, for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 31 of the Inland Revenue Act. No. 28 of 1979, to be a fund established by the Government of Sri Lanka.”.
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Retrospective effect.
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5. The amendment made to the principal enactment by section 4 of this Act, shall be deemed for all purposes to have come into force on March 21, 1985.
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Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.
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6. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.
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