Citizenship (Amendment) Act (No. 16 of 2003)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 11 of the principal enactment

8.Section 11 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows

(1) in subsection (1) of that section-

	(a)by the repeal of sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of that subsection:

	(b)by the substitution in sub paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of that subsection for the Words whose father was a citizen of Ceylon by descent of the words, words" either of whose parents was a citizen of Sri Lanka and

	(c)by the substitution, in sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of that subsection, for the words whose father, having been a citizen of Ceylon by descent of the words "either of whose parents, having been a citizen of Sri Lanka" ;

(2) by the repeal of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of that section.