Muslim Marriage And Divorce (Amendment) Act (No. 5 of 1965)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 76 of the principal Act. [ 2, 5 of 1965.]

7. Section 76 of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows : -

(1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section ;

(2) by the addition, immediately after the renumbered subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection : -

	" (2) Where the counterfoil of any entry made by a registrar or a Quazi is lost, the Registrar-General may, if the foil or duplicate is available, cause the missing document to be replaced by a copy of such foil or duplicate, such copy being certified by the Registrar-General to be a true copy; and a copy so certified shall be deemed to be the counterfoil of such entry. " ; and

(3) in the marginal note to that section, by the substitution, for the words " duplicate entries", of the words "counterfoil or duplicate entries " .