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Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority Act 2007 · As enacted · Part II · Powers, Duties and Functions of the Board

8. Renewable Energy Resource Development Plans

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

(1)

The Director-General shall not later than three years after the appointed date, submit to the Board a comprehensive Renewable Energy Resource Development

Plan (hereinafter referred to as “the Plan”) based on the results of the survey and the renewable resource assessment carried out under section 7.

(2)

The Board shall, within thirty days from the date of receipt of such Plan, make modifications, if any, to such Plan and submit the same to the Minister.

(3)

The Minister shall by a notice published in one newspaper each in the Sinhala, Tamil and English languages, notify the place and times at which the Plan submitted to him under subsection (2) is available for inspection by the public and invite the public to make its comments, if any, thereon, within thirty days of the publication of such notice.

(4)

At the end of the period of thirty days referred to in subsection (3), the Minister may, having regard to any comments submitted to him by the public under that subsection, provisionally approve the Plan subject to such modifications, if any, as he may consider necessary and shall submit the same to the Cabinet of Ministers for its approval.

(5)

Upon approval of the Plan by the Cabinet of

Ministers, the Minister shall cause such Plan to be published in the Gazette and it shall come into operation on the date of such publication or on such later date as may be specified therein.

(6)

The Plan shall be revised by the Board once in every three years commencing from the date of coming into operation of the Plan, and the provisions of subsections (2), (3), (4) and (5) shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to and in respect of every such revision.

(7)

The Minister may on the recommendation of the

Board, prescribe such measures as may be necessary to give effect to the Plan and to the strategies referred to therein.

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