PARLIAMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC

SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF
SRI LANKA

JUDICATURE (AMENDMENT)
ACT, No. 31 OF 2007

[Certified on 08th August, 2007]

Printed on the Order of Government

Published as a Supplement to Part II of the Gazette of the Democratic

Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of August 10, 2007

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 Judicature (Amendment) Act, No. 31 of 2007 1

[Certified on 08th August, 2007]

L.D.—O. 11/2007.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE JUDICATURE ACT, NO. 2 OF 1978

BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist

Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :—

1. This Act may be cited as the Judicature (Amendment) Short title and
Act, No. 31 of 2007 and shall come into operation on such date of opera-
tion.
date as the Minister may appoint by Order published in the
Gazette.

2. Section 4 of the Judicature Act, No. 2 of 1978 is Amendment of

hereby amended by the substitution for the words “not more section 4 of Act
No.2 of 1978.
than forty Judges.” of the words “not more than sixty Judges.”.

3. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala Sinhala text to

and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. prevail in case of
inconsistency.

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