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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sri-lanka-independence-act-1947/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/7",
  "legislation_title": "Sri Lanka Independence Act 1947",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sri-lanka-independence-act-1947",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865, shall not apply to any law made after the appointed day by the Parliament of Sri Lanka.\n(2) No law and no provision of any law made after the appointed day by the Parliament of Sri Lanka shall be void or inoperative on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England, or to the provisions of any existing or future Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, or to any order, rule or regulation made under any such Act, and the powers of the Parliament of Sri Lanka shall include the power to repeal or amend any such Act, order, rule or regulation in so far as the same is part of the law of Sri Lanka.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "For references to “Ceylon” in this Act there are substituted references to “Sri Lanka” by virtue of Sri Lanka Republic Act 1972 (c. 55, SIF 26:40), s. 1(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1865 c. 63."
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  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/7/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:24:24.409522+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}