Dhaarul Uloom Al-Meezaniyyah Arabic College, Kurugoda, Akurana (Incorporation) Act 2007

This Act may be cited as the Dhaarul Uloom AI-Meezaniyyah Arabic College, Kurugoda, Akurana

(Incorporation) Act, No. 60 of 2007.

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Dhaarul Uloom Al-Meezaniyyah Arabic College,

Kurugoda, Akurana (Incorporation)

Act, No. 60 of 2007

From and after the date of commencement of this Act, such and so many persons as presently are members of the

Board of Management of the Dhaarul Uloom Al-Meezaniyyah

Arabic College, Kurugoda, Akurana (hereinafter referred to as the “Institution”) and such and so many members as now are members of the said Institution or shall hereafter be admitted as members of the Corporation hereby constituted, shall be a body corporate (hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation”)

with perpetual succession, under the name and style of the

“Dhaarul Uloom Al-Meezaniyyah Arabic College. Kurugoda,

Akurana” 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.

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

tomanage, maintain, administer and develop the said

to encourage the teaching of Islam in the Arabic

to provide facilities to produce Islamic Religious

to provide opportunities to the Muslim students to learn Islamic.Religious Education on the basis of approved syllabus of the Ministry of Education of

to encourage the recital from memory of the

toestablish and maintain a separate division for the social, economic and educational development of Muslim ladies

Kurugoda, Akurana (Incorporation)

Act, No. 60 of 2007

to provide assistance by way of scholarships, loans, advances and grants to deserving Muslim students to pursue their studies and research in Sri Lanka and abroad and to render assistance in any other manner as may be deemed neccessary to enable them to pursue their studies ; and train Muslim students to engage in any income generating industry using the raw materials available in the area.

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 carrying out of its objects.

Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), the Corporation shall have the following powers :—

The affairs-of the Corporation shall, subject to the other provisions: of this Act be: manage, supervised and administered by a Board of Management.

The first Board of Management of the Corporation shall consist of the Board of Management of the Institution holding office on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act.

It shall be lawful for the Corporation, from time to time at any general meeting and a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting.:

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

All debts and liabilities of the Institution existing on the day preceding the date of commencement of this

Act shall be paid by the Corporation hereby constituted and all debts due to and subscriptions and contributions payable to the Institution on that day shall be ‘paid to the

Corporation for the purposes of this Act.

The Corporation shall have its own fund and all moneys heretofore or hereafter to be received by way of gifts, testamentary disposition, donations, contributions and fees shall be deposited in the name of-the Corporation in one or more banks as may be decided by the Board of

There shall be paid out of the fund, all sums of moneys to defray any expenditure incurred by the Corporation in the exercise, performance and discharge of its powers, duties and functions under this Act.

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

The accounts of the Corporation shall be examined and audited at least once in every year and certified by the Auditor or Auditors who shall be a member or an associate member or members of the Institute of Chartered

If upon the dissolution of the Corporation there remains after the satisfaction of all debts and liabilities, any property whatsoever. such property shall not be distributed among the members of the Corporation but shall be given or transferred to some other society or societies having objects, similar to those of the

Corporation and which is or are by the rules, prohibited from distributing any income or profit among its members.

Such institution or institutions shall be determined by the members of the Corporation at or immediately before the time of dissolution of the Corporation.

The seal of the Corporation shall not be affixed to any instrument whatsoever, except in the presence of such number of members of the Board of Management of the Corporation as may be provided in the rules who shall sign their names to 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 any body politic or corporate.

In the event of any inconsistency between the

Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.

inconsistency.