Social Security Board (Amendment) Act 1999

This Act may be cited as the Social Security Board

(Amendment) Act, No.33 of 1999.

Wherever in the Social Security Board Act, No. 17 of 1996 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal enactment”)

or in any other written law or in any notice, communication, form or other document issued, made, required, or authorised by or under the principal enactment or such other written law, the expression “ Social Security Board” occurs, there shall be substitued the expression “the Sri Lanka Social

Security Board”

Section 3 of the Principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section and the substitution of the following subsection therefor :-

“(2) The Minister shall appoint one of the Directors as the Chairman of the Board, and may appoint another

Director to be a working Director of the Board.”

Section 4 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor :-

“ (4) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the functions of the Board shall be to establish a Pension and

Social Security Benefit Scheme (hereinafter referred to as

“the Scheme”) for self employed persons other than those in the fisheries and agriculture sectors, and to administer and manage such scheme with the following objectives in view:-

to provide social security to self employed persons during their old age and on disability ;

to provide relief to the dependants of self employed persons, upon death ;

to encourage self employed persons to continue in their respective occupations and to develop their capabilities and skills;

to encourage youth to be self employed and to develop their capabilities and skills;

to educate self employed persons on the benefits of thrift and resource management; and

to improve the living standards of self employed persons generally.”.

Section 5 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the insertion immediately after paragraph (f) of that section of the following new paragraph :-

“ (ff) collaborate with state institutions or non-governmental organizations discharging functions similar to the functions of the Board ;”

The following new section is hereby inserted immedialtey after section 6 and shall have effect as section 6A of the principal enactment.

6A. (1) The Minister shall appoint a

Technical Advisory Committee (hereinafter refferred to as “the Committee”) consisting of not more than nine persons, from among persons who, in the opinion of the Minister have had experience, or shown capacity, in the fields of social security, social welfare, insurance, actuarial evaluation, administration, finance or management.

The Chairman of the Board shall be the

The functions of the Committee shall be -

to advise the Board on such matters relating to the administration and management of the scheme as may, from time to time, be referred to it by the Board;

to advise the Board on any matter the

to advise the Board with regard to the making of rules by the Board.

The members of the Committee may be paid such remuneration as may be determined by the Board, subject to the approval of the Minister, from the Fund of the Board.’.

Section 9 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-

in subsection (1) of the section, by the substitution, for the words “a contributor shall be entitled”, of the words “a contributor shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (1A), be entitled”; and

by the insertion immediately after subsection (1) of that section of the following subsection:-

Section 13 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution for the words “be paid to his surviving spouse”, of the words “be paid to such person or persons as may have been nominated by him in the prescribed form and deposited with the Board, and in lieu of such nomination, be paid to his surviving spouse”.

Section 21 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-

by the insertion immediately after paragraph (c) of subsection (2), of that section, of the following new paragraph:-

by the insertion immediately after subsection (3) of that section, of the following new subsections:-

The following section is hereby inserted immediately after section 28, and shall have effect as section 28A of the principal enactment:-

28A. (1) The Minister may give the Board general directions as to the exercise of the powers and discharge of the functions, of the

Board, and it shall be the duty of the Board to give effect to every such direction.

The Minister may direct the Board, in writing, to furnish him with such information with respect to the discharge of the functions of the Board as may be specified in such writing and it shall be the duty of the Board to give effect to every such direction”.

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

“Power of

Minister to give directions