State Printing Corporation (Amendment)



State Printing Corporation (Amendment)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATE PRINTING CORPORATION ACT, No. 24 OF 1968.

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

[28th August
, 1981
]
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the State Printing Corporation (Amendment) Act.

Replacement of section 4 of Act No. 24 of 1968.

2. Section 4 of the State Printing Corporation Act is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:”

” General objects of the Corporation.

4.

(1) The general objects of the Corporation shall be, either by itself or with any foreign collaborator”

(a) to carry out any printing work or any printing and publishing work required by the Government, local bodies or any public corporation established by law or any board established by or under any law;

(b) subject to the provisions of subsection (2) to carry out any printing work or any printing and publishing work required by any private institution or individual;

(c) to undertake the sale and distribution of books and publications printed or published by the Corporation other than books and publications printed or published for the Educational Publications Department;

(d) to undertake the manufacture and sale of stationery and other ancillary products; and

(e) to do all such other acts or things as are necessary for or incidental to the attainment of the objects hereinbefore mentioned.

(2) No work referred to in subsection (1) (b) shall be undertaken by the Corporation unless such work can be carried out without interfering with the printing and publishing of school text books.”.