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| (1) Section 13 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor: -
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| | | (1) The Minister shall appoint a competent and experienced person as Managing Director. |
| (2) The Managing Director shall, subject to the general direction of the Ports Authority on matters of policy and special directions of the Chairman, be charged with the direction of the business of the Ports Authority, the organization and the exercise, performance and discharge of its powers, duties and functions and the administrative control of the employees of that Authority. |
| (3) The Managing Director may, with the approval in writing of the Ports Authority, delegate in writing to any other employee of the Authority such of his powers, duties or functions as he may from time to time consider necessary, and any employee to whom such powers, duties or functions are so delegated shall exercise them subject to the general or special directions of the Managing Director. |
| (4) If the Managing Director is temporarily absent from Sri Lanka or is temporarily incapacitated by illness or for other reasons is temporarily unable to perform his duties, another person may be appointed by the Minister to act in the place of the Managing Director until he is able to resume duties. ". |
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| (2) The amendment made to the principal enactment by subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of June, 1981. |
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