6. Section 71 of the principal enactment as amended by Act, No. 71 of 1988, is hereby further amended as follows :
| (1) in the definition of " authorized representative ", by the substitution for paragraph (2) thereof, of the following paragraph :"
| | " (2) who is authorized by any person in writing from time to time to act on behalf of such person for the purposes of this Act in respect of such matters as are specified in the authorization and who"-
| | | (i) being" an individual registered as an auditor under the Companies (Auditors) Regulations is approved by the Commissioner General; or |
| (ii) is an individual approved by the Commissioner -General under regulations made in that behalf ; |
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| (2) by the insertion, immediately after the definition ol "conveyance", of the following new definition: " |
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| (3) by the substitution for the definition of " document ", of the following definition:"'" document'' in relation to"
| | (a) legal proceedings in any court means an appointment of Attorney, plaint, answer, replication or other pleading, petition, application, affidavit, appointment, summons, judgment, decree, order of any description, award, writ, warrant, inventory, account, mandate, bond recognizance, citation, application other than motion, interrogatories, answer to interrogatories, notice of appeal, bill of costs, commission, injunction or notice ; and | | |
| | (b) any transaction which a person enters into with any bank in Sri Lanka for the withdrawal or transfer of money means every instruction, order or advice tendered to and acted upon by such bank, whether such instruction, order, or advice is written or is by means of magnetic of electronic or other medium (and by means or which the use of a cheque drawn on any account which such person holds in such bank is dispensed with) | | |
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| (4) by the insertion immediately after the definition "public corporation", of the following new definition;" |
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| (5) by the substitution in the definition of " write " for the words " figures can be expressed ", of the words "figures, whether in codified or other from can be expressed ". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts