33. Repeal and transitional provisions

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

(1)

The Agricultural Insurance Law, No.27 of 1973

is hereby repealed.

(2)

Notwithstanding the repeal of the Agricultural

Insurance Law, No. 27 of 1973 -

(a)

all contracts entered into by the Agricultural

Insurance Board established by that Law and subsisting on the day preceding the appointed date shall be deemed, with effect from the appointed date to be contracts entered into with the Board and may be enforced accordingly;

(b)

all actions and proceedings instituted by or against the Agricultural Insurance Board established by that Law and pending on the day preceding the appointed date shall be deemed, with effect from the appointed date, to be actions and proceedings instituted by or against the Board and may be continued accordingly;

(c)

all decrees and orders entered in favour of,or against, the Agricultural Insurance Board established by that Law and remaining unsatisfied on the day preceding the appointed date shall be deemed, with effet from the appointed date, to be decrees and orders entered in favour of, or against, the Board, as the case may be, and may be enforced accordingly;

(d)

all powers and duties conferred or imposed on the Agricultural Insurance Board established by that Law, by the Farmers Pension and Social

Security Benefit Scheme Act, No.12 of 1987 the

Fisherman’s Pension and Social Securities

Benefit Scheme Act, No.23 of 1990, shall be deemed, with effect from the appointed date, to be powers and duties conferred or imposed on the Board, and accordingly, references in the

Farmers Pension and Social Security Benefit

Scheme Act, No.12 of 1987 and the Fisherman’s

Pension and Social Security Benefit Scheme Act,

No.23 of 1990 respectively, to the “Agricultural

Insurance Board” shall be deemed to be references to “the Board”.

(e)

all property movable or immovable owned by the Agricultural Insurance Board establlished by that Law and used for the purpose of the

Board on the day immediately preceding the appointed date shall vest in the Board with effect from the appointed date;

(f)

all debts and liabilities of the Agricultural

Insurance Board established by that Law and subsisting on the day immediately preceding the appointed date shall be deemed to be debts and liabilities of the Board with effect from the appointed date;

(g)

all officers and servants of the Agricultural

Insurance Board established by that Law on the day immediately preceding the appointed date who accept employment with the Board shall be employed by the Board on such terms and conditions as are not less favourable than the terms and conditions of employment that were applicable to them on the day immediately preceding the appointed date;

(h)

all moneys lying to the credit of the Agricultural

Insurance Board established by that Law on the day immediately preceding the appointed date shall stand transferred with effect from that date to the Fund of the Board established under this Act.

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