3. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 10 of the principal enactment, and shall have effect as section 10A, of that enactment:
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| | (1) Any Sri Lankan citizen proceeding for employment outside Sri Lanka may, register with the Public Trustee, the names of the persons to whom any compensation shall be payable in the event of his death while being so employed. | | |
| | (2) Where a Sri Lankan citizen dies while being employed outside Sri Lanka, his employer may transmit to the Public Trustee, any sum payable as compensation in respect of such death, to be paid by the Public Trustee to the persons entitled thereto. | | |
| | (3) On receipt of any sum under subsection (2) the Public Trustee may, distribute such sum to the persons nominated by the deceased under subsection (1) or in the absence of such nomination, to the persons entitled thereto.". | | |
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