Chinmaya Mission of Sri Lanka (Incorporation) Act 1981

This Act may be cited as the Chinmaya Mission of

Sri Lanka (Incorporation) Act, No. 28 of 1981.

From and after the date of commencement of this

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

Chinmaya Mission of Sri Lanka (hereinafter‘ referred to as “the Mission”) 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 “Chinmaya Mission of Sri Lanka”, 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 :—

to promote universal brotherhood amongst all sections of the people in accordance with

to assist in the promotion of racial, religious ana

to co-operate with local and foreign organizations in the pursuit of peace and harmony among the people of the world;

to promote and encourage the study of comparative religions and all systems of Hindu philosophy and for this purpose to establish an ‘International Hindu

to provide, establish, endow, maintain, control and manage Veda Agama Schools,

to train students and others for a life of dedication and service to mankind and for the propagation of the spiritual culture and wisdom of Vedanta philosophy;

to conduct Gyana Yagnas, Study Groups, Devi

to construct, maintain and administer orphanages, chinics, hospitals, diagnostic centres, community halls, and to extend medical relief and aid in any manner to the needy ;

to give aid either in cash or in kind to the monks, volunteers and others engaged in the propagation of the objects of the Corporation ;

to promote, arrange, organize and hold exhibitions, lectures, seminars, symposia, workshops, classes, debates, conferences, tours, excursions or any other functions for the furtherance of the objects of the Corporation ;

to provide and maintain libraries, to subscribe for and issue books, journals, souvenirs and periodicals and such other services as may be deemed desirable for carrying out the objects of the

to institute and establish scholarships, rewards, grants and prizes and to encourage spiritual philosophical or cultural studies

The affairs of the Corporation shall, subject to the rules in force for the time being of the Corporation, be administered by an Executive Committee consisting of such number of persons to be nominated, elected or appointed in accordance with such rules.

The first Executive Committee of the Corporation shall be the Executive Committee of the Mission holding office at the time of the coming into operation of this Act.

The Corporation may, from time to time, at a general meeting and by a vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting thereat, make rules for the admission to, and removal! from, membership of the Corporation, for the performance of the duties of the office-bearers and other members of the Executive Committee of the Corporation, for the procedure in the transaction of business, and other-wise generally for the management of the affairs of the

The rules of the Mission in force at the time of the coming into operation of this Act shall be deemed to be the rules of the Corporation made under this section.

Any rule of the Corporation for the time being in force or any rule which may hereafter be passed, may be added to, amended or rescinded in like manner as a rule may be made under subsection (1).

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

All debts and liabilities of the Mission existing at the time of coming into operation of this Act shall be paid by the Corporation hereby constituted and all debts due to and subscriptions and contributions payable to the Mission shall be paid to the Corporation for the purposes of this

Act.

The seal of the Corporation shall not be affixed to any instrument whatsoever except in the presence of two of the members of the Executive Committee, duly autho-rized, 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.

The Corporation shall be capable in law to take over 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 ali such property shall be held by the Corporation for the purposes of this

Act and subject to the rules in force for the time being of the Corporation, with full power to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of the same.

If upon the dissolution of the Corporation there remains, after the satisfaction of all debts and liabilities, any property whatsoever, such property shall not be distri-buted among the members of the Corporation, but shall be given or transferred to some other association or associa-tions having objects similar to the objects of the Corpora-tion, and which is or are by the rules thereof prohibited from distributing any income or property among its or their members. Such association or associations shall be determined by the members of the Corporation at or immediately before the time of the dissolution of the Corpo-ration.

Nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice or affect the rights of the Republic or of any body politic or corporate or of-any other persons, except such as are men-tioned in this Act, and those claiming by, from or under them.

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Rs. 40 (Foreign), payable to the SUPERINTENDENT GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS:

Bureau, P. O. Box 500, CoLomMsBO 1, before 15th December each year in respect of the year following.