Habarakada Siri Dharmawijaya Sahana Sewa Foundation (Incorporation) Act 2000

This Act may be cited as the Habarakada Siri

Dharmawijeya Sahana Sewa Foundation (Incorporation) Act,

No.18 of 2000.

From and after the date of commencement of this Act, such and so many persons as now are members of the

Habarakada Siri Dharmawijeya Sahana Sewa Foundation

(hereinafter referred to as “the Foundation”) 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 “Habarakada Siri Dharmawijeya Sahana Sewa

Foundation” and by that name may sue and be sued in all courts with full power and authority to have and use acommon seal and to alter the same at its pleasure.

Foundation (Incorporation) Act, No. 18 of 2000

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

General Powers of the Corporation to establish and maintain educational institutions and students’ hostels in any part of Sri Lanka ;

to provide financial aid and award scholarships to needy students

;

to provide medical aid, food, clothings and housing to the poor, the destitute and the sick ;

to provide welfare facilities to the blind, the deaf and the dumb ;

to develop and upgrade the education of laymen and monks by conducting courses of study in Sinhala, Pali,

Sanskrit, Buddhism, Ayurveda and sciences ;

to conduct all religious ceremonies approved by the

Corporation and to conduct the annual memorial pinkama to commemorate Rev. Wallambagala Sri

Pangnasara Thero ; and to do all other things necessary or expedient for the carrying out of the objects of the Corporation.

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

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Foundation (Incorporation) Act, No. 18 of 2000

The affairs of the Corporation shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and rules in force for the time being of the Corporation be administered by a Board of Management elected in accordance with the rules of such Corporation.

The first Board’ of Management of the Corporation shall consist of the members of the Board of Management of the Foundation holding office on the day. immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act.

Itshall be lawful for the Corporation, from time to ume, al any general meeting and by a majority of the members present and voting, to make rules, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or any other written law, for all or any of the following matters :—

Any rule made by the Corporation may be amended, altered, added to, or rescinded at a like meeting and in like manner as a rule made under subsection (1).

The rules of the Foundation in force on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act shall, in so far as they are not consistent with the provisions of this Act or any other written law be deemed to be the rules of the Corporation made under this section.

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

The Corporation shall have its own fund and all moneys received by way of donation, testamentary disposition, transfer, contributions, or fees shall be deposited in the name of the Corporation in one or more Banks as the Board of

The Board of Management may create any depreciation fund, reserve or sinking fund for the rehabilitation, improvement and development of the property of the Corporation.

There shall be paid out of the fund, all such sums of money as may be incurred as expenditure by the Corporation in the exercise, performance and discharge of its powers, duties and functions under this Act.

The financial year of the Corporation shall be the calendar year.

The Corporation shall cause proper accounts to be kept of its income and expenditure, assets and liabilities and all other transactions of the Corporation.

The accounts of the Corporation shall be audited by a qualified auditor.

an individual who being a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, or of any other Institute established by law, possesses a certificate to practise as an Accountant issued by the

The Corporation shall be as a non-profit organisation and no part of the gains, profits of dividends, if any, of the Corporation shall be distributed among the members of the Corporation.

In the case of the dissolution of the Corporation all the assets remaining after payment of all debts and liabilities thereof, shall be transferred to an organisation established exclusively for charitable or educational purposes and which, is by the rules thercof, prohibited from distributing asscts among its members.

All debts and liabilities of the Foundation existing on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act, shall be paid by the Corporation hereby constituted, and all debts duc to, subscriptions and contributions payable to, the Foundation on that day shall be paid to the Corporation for the purposes of this Act.

The Corporation shall be able and capable in law, to acquire and hold any property movable or immovable which may become vested in it by virtue of purchase, grant, gill, 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 in force for the time being of the

Corporation, it shall have full power to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of the same.

The seal of the Corporation shall not be affixed to any instrument whatsoever except in the presence of the

Chairman, the Secretary or the Treasurer who shall sign their names to the instruments in token of their presence, and such signing shall be independent of the signing of any person as a witness.

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 mentioned in this

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

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