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| (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), every arbitrator nominated or appointed under the principal Act, whether before or on or after the relevant date, shall be deemed to have been, and to be, validly nominated or appointed. |
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| (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), every reference of any industrial dispute under the principal Act, whether before or on or after the relevant date, to any arbitrator referred to in sub-section (1), or to any labour tribunal shall be deemed to have been, and to be, a valid reference, and every arbitrator and labour tribunal shall be deemed to have been, and to be, duly authorized to settle every industrial dispute referred to such arbitrator or labour tribunal under the principal Act. |
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| (3) Nothing in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be deemed or construed to validate any award of any arbitrator or any labour tribunal where such award was subsequently quashed by a relevant decision of the Supreme Court on application by way of writ: |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts