Skip to content
As enacted
Contents

41. Amendment of Article 154 of the Constitution

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

Article 154 of the Constitution is hereby amended in paragraph (1) of that Article, by the substitution for all the words and figures from “the Offices of the Cabinet of

Ministers,” to the end of that paragraph, of the words and figures “the Office of the Secretary to the Cabinet of Ministers, the Offices of the Ministers appointed under Article 44 or 45, the Judicial Service Commission, the Parliamentary Council, the Commissions referred to in Schedule I to Article 41A, the

Provincial Public Service Commissions, the Parliamentary

Commissioner for Administration, the Secretary-General of

Parliament, local authorities, public corporations, business and other undertakings vested in the Government under any written law and companies registered or deemed to be registered under the Companies Act, No. 7 of 2007 in which the Government or a public corporation or local authority holds fifty per centum or more of the shares of that company, including the accounts threreof.”.