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Office for Reparations Act 2018 · As enacted · Part V · General

26. Repeals, savings and transitional Provisions

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

(1)

The Rehabilitation of Persons, Properties and

Industries Authority Act, No. 29 of 1987 is hereby repealed

(in this Act referred to as the “repealed Act”).

(2)

Notwithstanding the repeal of the aforesaid Act –

(a)

all movable and immovable properties including files, records, documentation, computers, data storage devices of the Rehabilitation of Persons,

Properties and Industries Authority established under section 2 of the repealed Act, subsisting on the date of commencement of this Act, shall, with effect from the date of commencement of this Act vest in the Office for Reparations established under section 3 of this Act;

(b)

all contracts and agreements entered into by or with the Rehabilitation of Persons, Properties and

Industries Authority established under section 2

of the repealed Act, subsisting on the date of commencement of this Act, shall, with effect from the date of commencement of this Act, be deemed to be contracts and agreements entered into by or with the Office for Reparations established under section 3 of this Act;

(c)

(i)

all officers or servants of the Rehabilitation of Persons, Properties and Industries

Authority established under section 2 of the repealed Act who are offered employment in the Office for Reparations established under section 3 of this Act and who express a desire to accept such employment, shall become members of the staff of the Office for Reparations and shall be employed on terms not less favourable than their terms of employment in the Rehabilitation of Persons,

Properties and Industries Authority;

(ii)

where any officer or servant of the

Rehabilitation of Persons, Properties and

Industries Authority established under section 2 of the repealed Act, expresses a desire –

(aa)

not to accept employment in the

Office for Reparations; or

(bb)

to accept employment in the Office for Reparations, but in view of the nature of the services performed by him in his employment in the

Rehabilitation of Persons, Properties and Industries Authority, he cannot be accommodated in the staff of the

Office for Reparations, be paid compensation in terms of a voluntary retirement scheme approved by the Cabinet of Ministers;

(iii)

until such time as an appropriate decision is made by the relevant authority with regard to the cadres and salaries of the Office for

Reparations, the approvals made and prevailing in respect of the cadres and salaries of the Rehabilitation of Persons, Properties and Industries Authority on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be an approval of the cadres and salaries of the Office for Reparations;

(d)

all actions and proceedings instituted by or against the Rehabilitation of Persons, Properties and

Industries Authority established under section 2

of the repealed Act, and pending on the date of commencement of this Act, shall, with effect from the date of commencement of this Act, be deemed to be actions and proceedings as the case may be, instituted by or against the Office for Reparations established under section 3 of this Act and may accordingly be continued and completed;

(e)

all judgments and orders made in favour or against the Rehabilitation of Persons, Properties and

Industries Authority established under section 2

of the repealed Act, and remaining unsatisfied on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act, shall, with effect from the date of commencement of this Act, be deemed to be judgements and orders made in favour or against the Office for Reparations established under section 3 of this Act and be enforced accordingly;

(f)

all the claims made to and all the programmes commenced by the Rehabilitation of Persons,

Properties and Industries Authority established under section 2 of the repealed Act, on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act, shall, be deemed on and after the date of commencement of this Act to be the claims made to and all the programmes commenced by the Office of Reparations established under section 3 of this Act; and

(g)

all interests, rights, assets, obligations, debts and liabilities of the Rehabilitation of Persons,

Properties and Industries Authority established under section 2 of the repealed Act, on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act, shall be on and after the date of commencement of this Act to be interests, rights, assets, obligations, debts and liabilities of the

Office for Reparations established under section 3

of this Act.

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