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| (1) The provisions of this part shall apply to and in relation to a workman employed in any industry in respect of the entire period of service under an employer; |
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| (2) A workman referred to in subsection. (1) of section 5 shall be entitled to receive as gratuity, a sum equivalent to-
| | (a) half a month's, wage or salary for each year of completed service computed at the rate of wage or salary last drawn by the workman, in the case of a monthly rated workman; and | | |
| | (b) in the case of any other workman, fourteen days' wage or salary for, each year of completed service computed at the rate of wage or salary last drawn by that workman: | | |
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| (3) Notwithstanding the provisions contained in subsection (2), the gratuity payable to a workman referred to in the first provision to subsection (1) in respect of the period of service for which he is entitled to a gratuity under Part I of this Act, shall be computed at the rate of a sum equivalent to fourteen days' wage or salary of that workman for each year of completed service based on the rate of wage or salary payable in the month in which such land vested in the Land Reform Commission or was acquired under the Land Acquisition Act. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts