STATUTORY REPRINTS

STATUTORY REPRINTS

AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE PUBLICATION AND AUTHENTICATION OF REVISED REPRINTS OF WRITTEN LAWS.

Ordinance Nos,
19 of 1936

[25^th December
, 1936 ]

short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Statutory. Reprints Ordinance.

Minister of Justice may authorize revised reprints of written law.

2. Whenever it is necessary to publish any reprint of any written law, the Minister of Justice may authorize-

(a) the inclusion or incorporation in that reprint of any addition made to that written law or of any alteration, amendment or modification made in that written law by any other written law enacted, promulgated or otherwise brought into operation or declared to be in force prior to the date of reprinting ;

(b) the omission from that reprint of any provision of that written law which has been repealed, rescinded, revoked, deleted or ordered to be omitted by any other written law enacted, promulgated or otherwise brought into operation or declared to be in force prior to the date of reprinting.

Authentication of revised reprints.

3. Every copy of any published reprint of any written law which has been revised for reprinting by authority of an order of the Minister of Justice under section 2 shall for all purposes be deemed to be authentic and a correct copy of written law in force in Sri Lanka on the date of such reprinting provided that such date is printed on each such copy and provided further that each such copy purports to be printed by the Government Printer by authority of an order of the Minister of Justice made under this Ordinance

Savings.

4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to authorize the publication of a revised edition of the Legislative Enactments or to require an order of the Minister of Justice to authorize the publication by the Government Printer of a reprint of any written law in the form in which that written law was enacted, promulgated or otherwise brought into operation or declared to be in force.