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LKA-1957-L-61858
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Title_of_text
Prevention of Social Disabilities Act, No. 21 of 1957.
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Sri Lanka
Subjects (Classification)
Non-discrimination
Adopted on (Date of text)
1957-04-13
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
Prohibits discrimination against someone based on their caste. The imposition of social disability also includes prevention of other persons from being engaged in any lawful employment (Section 3(xi)).
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
1971 (LKA-1971-L-94282)
Prevention of Social Disabilities (Amendment) Act, No. 18 of 1971.
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation on-line
Author
Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII)
Country
Sri Lanka
URL
http://www.commonlii.org/
File
LKA61858.pdf (PDF)
Serial region
Serial title
Printed separately
Page range
4 p.