Act of Parliament · As enacted
Lanka Jatika Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya (Incorporation) (Amendment) Act 1999
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
s 1Short title
This Act may be cited as the Lanka Jatika Sarvodaya
Shramadana Sangamaya (Incorporation) (Amendment) Act,
No. 12 of 1999.
s 2Amendement of section 3 of Act, No. 16 of 1972
Section 3 of Lanka Jatika Sarvodaya Shramadana
Sangamaya (Incorporation) Act, No. 16 of 1972 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended as follows :–
by the renumbering of subsection (9) of that section as subsection (15) thereof ;
by the repeal of subsection (10) of that section ;
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by insertion, immediately after subsection (8) of that section of the following new subsections :–
“(9) to promote, organise and engage in, economic and financial activities and to carry on such activities, both within and outside Sri Lanka, for the purpose of creating employment and financing the welfare programmes, projects, and activities of the Association ;
to promote the establishment of legally recognized community organisations to undertake spiritual, moral, social, educational, economic and financial activities for the development of communities in accordance with the Sarvodaya
Philosophy; and to assist such organisations to carry out their development, work, by providing them with training, management services and financial assitance ;
to establish such legal entities as may be necessary to manage the various programmes and projects of the Association, to frame rules governing the conduct of such entities, and to delegate to such entities such administrative powers and financial authority as may be necessary ;
to enter into arrangements for sharing profits, union of interest, co-operation, joint venture, reciprocal concession or otherwise, with any person, company or business undertaking carrying on, or engaged in, any business or transaction which the
Association wishes to carry on or engage in ;
to promote peace among the different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka through direct action, participation in non-violent interventions, and indirect participation in such activities as peace marches, peace conferences, peace education programmes, peace camps or other activities, by the establishment of Sarvodaya Non-violent People’s
Peace Organization ;
to strive for the promotion of universal respect for the observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms ; and by progressive measures, both national and international, to secure their universal recognition and observance,” and
in the renumbered subsection (15) of that section by the substitution for the words “ the Freedom from
Hunger Campaign of the Food and Agricultural
Organisation” of the abbreviations “the FAO, UNV.”
s 3Amendment of section 4 of the principal enactment
Section 4 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :–
in subsection (1) of that section by the substitution for the words “of the office bearers” of the words
“committee of office bearers” ; and
in subsection (2) of that section by the substitution for the words “functions to” of the words “functions to the committee of office bearers or”.
s 4Amendment of section 6 of the principal enactment
Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section by the substitution for the words “for the performance of the duties of the office bearers and other members of the Executive Council of the Corporation for”, of the words “for the performance of the duties of the committee of office-bearers and other members of the executive council of the corporation, for the establishment of Sarvodaya related economic enterprises and welfare units, for the composition of the committee of office bearers for”.
s 5
In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.