Bandaranaike Museum Committee (Incorporation) Act 1997

This Act may be cited as the Bandaranaike Museum

Committee (Incorporation) Act, No. 28 of 1997.

Incorporation of the Bandaranaike Museum Committee.

z. From and after the date of the commencement of this

Act such and so many persons as now are members of the

Bandaranaike Museum Committee (hereinafter referred to as

“the Committee”) or shall hereafter be admitted members of the Corporation hereby constituted, shall be a body corporate

(hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation”) with perpetual ~

succession under the name and style of the “Bandaranaike

Museum Committee” and by that name may sue and be sued, in‘all courts, with full power and authority to have and use a common seal and alter the same at its pleasure.

The general objects for which the Corporation is constituted are hereby declared to be —

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to maintain the Museum established and dedicated to the work of the late Prime Minister Mr. S. W. R.

to collect, classify and display, items relating to the life and work of the said late Prime Minister ;

to print and distribute, publications dealing with the life and work of the said late Prime Minister ;

to organize lectures, seminars and conferences, on the life and work of the said late Prime Minister.

Subject to the provisions of this Act or any other written law the Corporation shall have the power to do, perform and execute all such acts, matters and things, whatsoever as are conducive, necessary or desirable for the promotion or futherance of the objects of the Corporation or any one of them including the power to open, operate and close bank accounts, to borrow or raise moneys with or without security, to receive or collect grants and donations, to invest its funds, and to engage, employ and dismiss officers and servants required for the carrying out of the objects of the

Corporation.

The Corporation may hold property movable or immovable

The Corporation shall be capable in law to take and hold any property, movable or immovable, which may become vested in it by virtue of any purchase, grant, gift, testamentary disposition or otherwise and all such property shall be held by the Corporation for the purposes of this Act, and subject to the rules for the time being of the Corporation, with full power to seli, mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of the same.

The Corporation shall have an Executive Council consisting of—

Mrs. Sirimavo R. D. Bandaranaike shall be a life member of the Executive Council of the Corporation.

Whenever the member holding the life membership in the Executive Council resigns or otherwise vacates her membership the Executive Council shall elect the eldest child of Mrs. Sirimavo R. D. Bandaranaike as a life member of the

Whenever a vacancy. occurs in the office of the

All the debts and liabilities of the Committee existing on the day immediately preceding the date of the commencement of this Act, shall be paid by the Corporation hereby conStituted, and all debts due to, and subscriptions payable to, the said Committee on that day, shall be paid to the Corporation hereby constituted.

The affairs of the Corporation shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules in force, for the time being, of the Corporation be administered by the Executive Council of the Corporation.

The Corporation may, from time to time, at any general meeting of the Corporation and by the votes of a

The rules of the Committee in force on the day immediately preceding the date of the commencement of this

The members of the Corporation shall be subject to the rules of the Corporation.

The seal of the Corporation shall not be affixed to any instrument, whatsoever, except in the presence of two members of the Executive Council who shall sign their names to the instrument in token of their presence and such signing shall be independent of the signing of any person as a witness.

Savings of the rights of the Republic and others.

Nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice or affect the rights of the Republic, or of anybody politic or corporate, or of any other person, except such as are mentioned inthis

Act and others claiming by, from, or under them.

Inthe event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.