8 cum cchonal§ea sede dadded od ga GS Sons The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka EXTRAORDINARY Gon 122A 11 - 2002 SrSeq 16 OG ecoengadrg» - 2002.03.16 No. 12:7/11 ~ SATURDAY. MARCH 16, 2002 @ublished by Authority) PART L: SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications NOTICE UNDER EXCHANGE CONTROL ACT (CHAPTER 423 OF THE CLE) J. Importand export of Sri Lanka currency : General permission is hereby granted in terms of the provisions of sub-section 1(a) of Section 22, and sub- section 1 (a) of Section 21 of the Exchange Control Act, No. 24 of 1953. toll Sri Lankans to export and import on their persons Sri Lanka currency notes ina sum not exceeding Rs. 5,000 when they travel abroad or return to Sri Lanka, as the case may be. 2. Possession of unutilised foreign currency : (a) General permission is hereby granted under section 6A and section 48 of the Exchange Control Act, No, 24 of 1953, for a person resident in Sri Lanka to retain in the possession of such person foreign currency in the form of travellers cheques and foreign currency notes purchased by such person from an authorised dealer for travel ‘abroad and unutitised on such travel abroad, provided the currency so retained shall not exceed USS 2,000 or its equivalent in other convertible foreign currencies, of which not more than US$ 500 or its equivalent shall be in foreign currency notes. (8) General permission is also hereby granted in terms of Section 22 and section 48 of the Exchange Control Act for such a person referred (0 in (a) above to export on his/her person witen travelling abroad such currency as is retained in his/her possession in terms of (a) above. H.A.G. Hernaracuci, Controller of Exchange. 16th March, 2002. 0408 ‘PRINTED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, SRILANKA, 1