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| (1) The award of an arbitrator shall be transmitted to the Commissioner who shall forthwith cause the award to be published in the Gazette. |
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| (2) Every award of an arbitrator shall come into force on the date of the award or on such date, if any, as may be specified therein, not being earlier than the date on which the industrial dispute to which the award relates first arose. |
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| (3) Where any award of an arbitrator provides that the award shall have effect for any period or until any date specified therein, such award shall continue in force with effect from the date on which it comes into force as provided in subsection (2) until the end of the period or until the date so specified, unless it ceases earlier to have effect as provided in section 20. |
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| (4) Where no period or date is specified in any award as the period during which or the date until which the award shall have effect from the date on which it comes into force as provided in subsection (2) unless it ceases to have effect as provided in section 20. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts