AL-Kulliyathun Nooriya (Arabic College) Kannattota (Incorporation) Act 2000

This Act may be cited as the Mashura Council of the

Al-Kulliyathun Nooriya (Arabic College) Kannattota.

(Incorporation)

Act, No. 10 of 2000.

From and after the date of commencement of this Act, the members of the Mashura Council of the Al-Kulliyathun

Nooriya (Arabic College) Kannattota (hereinafter referred to as the “College”) and their successors, elected or appointed in accordance with the rules made hereunder, shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate (hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation”) with perpetual succession, under the name and style of the “Mashura Council of the Al-Kulliyathun

Nooriya (Arabic College) Kannattota” and by that name may sue and be sued in all courts, with full power and authority to have and use a common seal and to alter the same at its pleasure.

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Al-Kulliyathun Nooriya (Arabic College)

Kannattota (Incorporation) Act, No. 10 of 2000

The general objects for which the Corporation is constituted are hereby declared to be —

to manage, develop and maintain, the Al-Kulliyathun

to encourage recital from memory, of the “Holy

Quran” according to “Thajweed” or proper intonation ;

to do all other acts and things as are or may be necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainment of the above mentioned objects.

Subject to the provisions of this Act and any other written law, the Corporation shall have the power to do, perform and execute all such acts, matters and things whatsoever as are necessary or expedient for the promotion or furtherance of the objects of the Corporation, including the power to open, operate and close , bank accounts, to borrow or raise moncy with or without security, lo receive or collect grants and donations from local or foreign sources, to invest the funds of the Corporation, to construct any building on any land vested in or acquired or held by the Corporation and to employ and dismiss such officers and servants as are required for the carrying out of the objects of the Corporation.

It shall be lawful for the Corporation, from time to time, at any Gencral Meeting of the members and by the votes of not less than two thirds of the members present and voling, to make such rules. as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or any other wriltten law, for the management of the affairs of the Corporation and accomplishment of its objects. Such rules when made may at a like mecting and in like manner be altered, added to, amended or rescinded.

The rules of the College in force on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this

The members of the Corporation shall be subject to the rules of the Corporation.

All debts and liabilities of the College existing on the day preceding the date of commencement of this Act shall be paid by the Corporation and debts duc to and subscriptions and contributions payable to the College on such day shall be paid to the Corporation for purposes of this Act.

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The Corporation shall, subject to the rules of the

Corporation, be able and capable in law to take and hold any property movable or immvoable, which may become vested in it by virtue of any purchase, grant, gill, testamentary disposition or otherwise, and all such property shall be held by the Corporation for the purposes of this Act, and subject to the rules in force for the time being of the Corporation, with full power to sell, mortgage. lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of the same.

The Corporation shall have its own fund and all moneys heretofore or hereafter to be received by way of gift, bequest, donation, subscription, contribution, fees or grants.

There shall be paid out of the fund, all such sums of moncy as aré required to defray any expenditure incurred by the Corporation in the exercise and discharge of its powers and functions under this Act.

The money and property of the Corporation, howsoever derived shall be applicd solely towards the promotion of the objects of the Corporation.

The Corporation shall cause proper accounts to be kept of all the moneys received and expended by the

The accounts of the Corporation shall be examined and audited at least once in every year and the correctness of income and expenditure account and balance shect certified by the auditor or auditors who shall be the associate members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka appointed by the Corporation.

The Seal of the Corporation shall not be affixed to any instrument whatsoever except in the presence of such number of persons as may be provided for in the rules of the

Corporation, who shall sign their names on the instrument in token of their presence and such signing shall be independent of the signing of any person as a witness.

Nothing in this Act, contained shall prejudice or affect the rights of the Republic or of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons, except such as are mentioned in this

Act, and claiming by, from, or under, them.

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