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| (1) Wherever, in any provision of any other written law or of any notice, permit, communication, form or other document issued, made, required or authorized by or under any other written law, the expression " Commissioner of Indigenous Medicine" occurs, there shall be substituted therefor the expression " Commissioner for Ayurveda "; and accordingly wherever in any such provision the abbreviation " Commissioner " is used to denote the Commissioner of Indigenous Medicine, such abbreviation shall be read and construed as a reference to the Commissioner for Ayurveda. |
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| (2) If the designation of any office in the Department of Indigenous Medicine (as constituted prior to the appointed date) is altered-
| | (a) the Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, declare that the provisions of this subsection shall apply in relation to that designation; and | | |
| | (b) upon such declaration being made, then, wherever that designation occurs in any provision of any other written law or of any notice, permit, communication, form or other document issued, made, required or authorized by any other written law, there shall be substituted for that designation the new designation assigned to the corresponding office in the Department for Ayurveda. | | |
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| (3) Every contract, agreement or other instrument or document whatsoever made, issued or executed prior to the appointed date by or in favour of the Commissioner of Indigenous Medicine or any officer of that Department in his capacity as such, shall be deemed on and after the appointed date to be and to have been made, issued, or executed by or in favour of the Commissioner for Ayurveda or the officer holding the corresponding office in the Department for Ayurveda in his capacity as such; and any reference in any such contract, agreement, or other instrument or document to any officer in the Department of Indigenous Medicine (as constituted prior to the appointed date) shall be read and construed as a reference to the officer holding the corresponding office in the Department for Ayurveda. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts