All Ceylon Sri Sumangala Social Services and Welfare Association (Incorporation) Act 1993

This Act may be cited as the All Ceylon Sri

Sumangala Social Services and Welfare Association (Incor-poration )Act, No. 44 of 1993.

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

Ceylon Sri Sumangala Social Services and

Welfare

Association (hereinafter referred to as “the Association ”)

or shall hereafter be admitted 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

“All Ceylon Sri

Sumangala Social Services and Welfare Association ”, 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 alter the same at its pleasure.

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

to establish and maintain a vocational training cen-tre to conduct various study courses for school leavers with a view to their self employment in a religious environment

to take part and assist, in taking appropriate measures against internal or external threats to the country and natural calamities

to organize religious festivals from time to time ; and

to establish an International Buddhist Centre for the meeting of all persons who are interested in, studying and following Buddhism.

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 as are necessary or desirable for the furtherance cof the objects ofthe Corporation or any one of them, including the power to open, operate and close bank accounts, to borrow or raise moneys, with or without security, to receive or collect grants or donations, to invest its funds and to engage, employ and dismiss officers and servants required ~

for the carrying out of the objects of the Corporation.

Corporation, Management of the eftairs of the Corporation,

5 (1) The affairs of the Corporation shall, subject to the other provisions of this Act and the rules in force for the time being of the Corporation, be adminis-tered by a Board of Management consisting of the office-bearers and such number of other persons as may be provid-ed for in such rules and elected in accordance therewith.

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

The Corporation may, from time to time, at any general meeting of the Corporation and by the votes of a majority of the members present and voting, make rules, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or. any other written law, for the admission, withdrawal or expul-sion of members, for the election of the office-bearers and the Board of Management for the performance of the duties of the office-bearers, the Board of Management and the various officers, agents and servants of the Corporation, for the procedure to be followed in the transaction of business at meetings of the Corporation and the Board of

The rules of the Association in force on the day im-mediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provi-sions of this Act or any other written law be deemed to be the rules of the Corporation made under this section.

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

All debts and liabilities of the Association existing on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act shall be paid, and discharged, by the Corpora-payable sociation.

tion and all debts due to, and subscriptions and contribu-tions payable to, the Association on that day, shall be paid to the Corporation for the purposes of this Act,

The Corporation shall be capable in law to take and hold any property, movable or immovable which may become vested in it by virtue of any purchase, grant, gift, testamentary disposition, or otherwise, and all such proper-movable and immovable.

ty shall be held by the Corporation for the purposes of this Act and subject to the rules of the Corporation, with full power to sell, mortgage lease, exchange or otherwise dispose of the same.

The seal of the Corporation shall be in the custody of the Honorary General Secretary and shall not be affixed to any instrument except in the presence of the Honorary

General Secretary, and either the Honorary President or the Honorary Treasurer who shall sign their names to the instrument in token of their presence, and such signing shali 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 men-tioned in this Act and those claiming by, from. or under, them.

In the event of any inconsistency between the

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

by and to the As-any incon-sistency,