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Part II · Amendments to the Urban Councils Ordinance

12. Amendment of section 178A of the principal enactment

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

Section 178A of the principal enactment as amended by the Local Authorities Elections (Special Provisions) Law

No. 24 of 1977 is hereby further amended by the substitution for the words “supplementary budget of the Council” of the folowing:—

“supplementary budget of the Council:

Provided that, if the Council according to sections 178 and 178A of this ordinance modifies or rejects all or any items in any budget or supplementary budget or adds any item thereto which was submitted to the Council at any time by the Chairman after a period of two years since the commencement of the term of office of the Council, and if the Chairman does not agree to such decision of the Council, he shall resubmit the said budget to the Council for further consideration. Where a budget or supplementary budget is not passed by the Council within two weeks after it is resubmitte for the second time, the Chairman shall be deemed to have been resigned from the office of Chairman at the end of the said period of two weeks.”.

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