Public Security (Amendment)



Public Security (Amendment)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SECURITY ORDINANCE

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

[27th July
, 1988
]
Short title

1. This Act may foe cited as the Public Security (Amendment) Act, No, 28 of 1988.

Amendment of Section 2 of chapter 40

2, Section 2 of the Public Security Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion, immediately after subsection (2) of that section, of the following new subsection:

” (2A)

(a) Where a further Proclamation is made under subsection (2) of section 2 at or before the expiration of a Proclamation made under that section, every

(i) regulation made under section 5; and

(ii) every order and rule made under any such regulation,

and in force, or deemed to be in force, on the day immediately preceding the coming into operation of such further Proclamation shall be deemed to be in force, from and after the date of the coming into operation of such further Proclamation:

Provided that the President may at any time prior to the coming into operation of such further Proclamation by Order declare that on the coming into operation of such further Proclamation, any such regulation, order or rule as is specified in such order, shall not be deemed to be in force, or shall be deemed to be in force, subject to such amendments, or modifications as are set out in such. Order.

(b) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the power of the President to make regulations under section 5 during the continuance of a Proclamation under section 2, or to amend, vary or revoke any such regulation, order or rule in force, or deemed to be in force.”.