4. Section 6 of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:-
| (1) in subsection (5) of that section, by the substitution, in paragraph (a) of that subsection, for the word " Act", of the words " Act or of any other written law " ; |
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| (2) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (7) of that section, of the following new subsection : -
| | "(7A) The Commissioner may, by notification published in the Gazette and in a Sinhala newspaper, a Tamil newspaper and an English newspaper circulating in Ceylon, fix, in respect of any class of shops or offices, a date to be the date of commencement of the year of employment for the purposes of this section." ; and | | |
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| (3) by the repeal of subsection (8) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following new subsection: -
| | '(8) In this section, the expression "year of employment", with reference to any shop or office, shall,-
| | | (a) where that shop or office belongs to any class of shops or offices in respect of which the Commissioner has fixed a date under subsection (7A), mean the period of twelve months reckoned from that date, and |
| (b) in any other case, mean the period of twelve months reckoned from the first day of January of each year. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts