Registration of Documents (Amendment)

Registration of Documents (Amendment) AN ACT TO AMEND THE REGISTRATION OF DOCUMENTS ORDINANCE. BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Representatives of Ceylon in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: – Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Registration of Documents (Amendment) Act, No. 27 of 1969. Insertion of new section 2A in Chapter 117. 2. The following section is hereby inserted immediately after section 2 of the Registration of Documents Ordinance and shall have effect as section 2A of that enactment: – ” Hours of business in land register offices. 2A. Notwithstanding anything in the Holidays Act, No. 17 of 1965, every land register office shall be kept open for public business on any day- (1) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., if that day is not a public holiday, the day immediately preceding a Poya Day or a day declared by the Secretary to the Treasury as a special off-day for public officers; and (2) from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., if that day, being a day immediately preceding a Poya Day, is not a public holiday or a day declared by the Secretary to the Treasury as a special off-day for public officers, or, if one-half of any day has been declared by the Secretary to the Treasury as a special half off-day for public officers. “.