Public Security (Amendment) Law (No. 6 of 1978)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 5 of the principal enactment

3. Section 5 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows : -

(1) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following new subsection :-

	'(1) The President may make such regulations (hereinafter referred to as " emergency regulations ") as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in the interests of public security and the preservation of public order and the suppression of mutiny, riot or civil commotion, or for the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community.'; and

(2) by the substitution for the marginal note to that section of the following new marginal note :-