4. Section 40 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows : -
| (a) in subsection (1) of that section by the substitution, for the expression " general census of the Island", of the expression " general census of the Island (other than any general census of the Island taken after the date on which the estimate referred to in subsection (1A) of this section is published in the Gazette and before 1971) " ; and |
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| (b) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following sub-section : -
| | " (1A) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section the estimate of the population of the Island up to the end of June, 1958 published by the Director of Census and Statistics in the Gazette shall be deemed to be a general census of the Island completed on the date of publication of such estimate in the Gazette. ". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts