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AN ACT TO MAKE SUCH AMENDMENTS IN WRITTEN LAW AS ARE CONSEQUENTIAL TO THE CHANGE OF DESIGNATION OF VILLAGE HEADMEN AND VILLAGE HEADMEN’S DIVISIONS.
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[25th January
, 1964 ]
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Short title and date of operation.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Village Headmen (Change of Designation) Act, No. 6 of 1964, and shall be deemed, for all purposes, to have come into operation on the first day of May, 1963 (hereinafter referred to as the “appointed date”).
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Amendments in written law and documents consequential to the change of designation of Village Headmen and Village Headmen’s Divisions. Cap. 356.
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2. With effect from the appointed date, in every context in which a Village Headman or a Village Head man’s Division is mentioned in any written law other than the Headmen (Change of Designation) Ordinance, or in any notice, communication, form or other document issued, made, required or authorized by or under any written law, there shall be substituted, for the words ” Village Headman” or ” Village Headman’s Division”, the words ” Grama Sevaka” or ” Grama Sevaka’s Division”, as the case may be.
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Amendment of section 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Cap. 20.
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3. Section 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code is here by amended by the insertion, immediately after the definition of ” Government Analyst”, of the following new definition:-
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” headman ” includes a Grama Sevaka, and accordingly any reference in this Code to the village of a headman shall, if such headman is a Grama Sevaka, be deemed and construed to be a reference to such Grama Sevaka’s Division; ‘.
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