3. Section 5 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section, and the substitution therefor of the following new subsection:
" (1) Within sixty days after the end of each calendar month every commercial bank shall, according to the funds in each current account maintained in that bank, withdraw from that account a sum equal to the tax or part of the tax on the debits made against that account during that month, and shall, after deducting from the total of the sums withdrawn in pursuance of this subsection the amount of the fee referred to in section 6, remit the balance of such total, with a statement relating thereto in the prescribed form, to the Chief Accountant of the Central Bank of Ceylon to be credited to the Consolidated Fund of Sri Lanka. ". |
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