Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsAmendment of the Fee- Charging Employment Agencies Act, No. 37 of 1956
| 27. (1) Section 8 of the Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Act, No. 37 of 1956, is hereby repealed- (2) Section 19 of the Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Act, No. 37 of 1956, is hereby amended by the substitution for the definition of " fee-charging employment agency ", of the following definition:- " fee-charging employment agency " means any individual, firm or company who or which, with the view to deriving directly or indirectly any pecuniary or other material advantage (whether such advantage be profit, a fee or other pecuniary or other material advantage) , from an employer or worker, acts as an intermediary for the purpose of procuring employment in Sri Lanka for a worker or of supplying an employer for employment in Sri Lanka with a worker, but does not include any individual, firm or company who or which recruits seamen or publishes or causes to be published any newspaper or other publication unless that newspaper or other publication is solely or mainly concerned with the aforesaid purpose ; '. |