2. Section 2 of the Public Security Ordinance, hereinafter referred to as the " principal enactment ", is hereby amended as follows :
| (1) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following new subsection:-
| | " (2) Where the provisions of Part II of this Ordinance have come into operation on any date by virtue of a Proclamation under subsection (1), those provisions shall, subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, be in operation for a period of one month from that date, but without prejudice to the earlier revocation of the Proclamation or to the making of a further Proclamation at or before the end of that period." ; and | | |
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| (2) by the addition, immediately after subsection (3) of that section, of the following new subsections : -
| | " (4) Where the provisions of Part II of this Ordinance have come into operation on any date by virtue of a Proclamation made under subsection (1), such Proclamation shall expire after a period of fourteen days from the date on which the provisions of that Part shall have come into operation, unless such Proclamation is approved by a resolution of the National State Assembly: | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts