2. Incorporation of the Sri Lanka Association of Professional Social Workers

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

From and after the date of commencement of this

Act, such and so many persons as now are members of the Sri

Lanka Association of Professional Social Workers (hereinafter referred to as the “Association”) or shall hereafter be admitted as members of the Corporation hereby constituted shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession under the name and style of the “Sri Lanka Association of Professional Social

Workers” (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”), and by that name may sue and be sued with full power and authority to have, and use a common seal and to alter the same at its pleasure.

(2)

The Corporation shall be deemed to be a Voluntary

Social Service Organization within the meaning, and for the

Sri Lanka Association of Professional purpose of the Voluntary Social Services Organizations

(Registration and Supervision) Act, No. 31 of 1980 and the provisions of that Act shall apply to and in relation to the management of the affairs of the Coporation.

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