Excise Department has announced 19 selected days in 2017 where the sale of liquor is banned.
Those days included all the Poya days, independence day, day prior to the Sinhala – Hindu New Year, Sinhala – Hindu New Year day, day following Vesak poya, Ramadan Day, World Alcohol Prevention Day, and the Christmas day.
In addition, the liquor shops will have to close on any other day on short notice issued by the government, the Excise Department said.
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