21. Amendment of section 33 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Section 33 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (1) thereof, and the substitution therefor of the following:-

“(1) There shall be a Committee which shall be called the Ayurveda Research Committee, (hereinafter in this Part referred to as “the Committee”) which shall consist of fourteen members, namely-

(a)

the Commissioner-General;

(b)

the Head of the Ayurveda National Hospital;

(c)

the Head of the Bandaranayake Memorial

Ayurveda Research Institute;

(d)

four Professors of traditional medicine, each representing the University of Colombo, Sri

Lanka, the Gampaha Wickramarachchi

University of Indigenous Medicine, the

University of Jaffna, and the Faculty of Siddha

Medicine of Eastern University, Sri Lanka;

(e)

one member duly appointed by the National

Science Foundation established under the

Science and Technology Development Act,

No. 11 of 1994;

(f)

one member duly appointed by the National

Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka established under the Intellectual Property

Act, No. 36 of 2003;

(g)

one member nominated by the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister assigned the subject of Science;

(h)

one member appointed by the Minister from among persons who possess ten or more years of experience in the field of law;

(i)

two members appointed by the Minister, from among the Ayurveda Practitioners registered in the special register; and

(j)

one member not below the rank of Senior

Assistant Secretary appointed by the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister to whom the subject of Finance is assigned.”.

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