Siraj Arabic College, Oddamavadi (Incorporation) Act 2000

This Act may be cited as the Mashura Council of the

Siraj Arabic College, (Incorporation) Act, No. 37 of 2000.

From and after the date of commencement of this Act, the persons who are now members of the Mashura Council of “the Siraj Arabic College, Oddamavadi” (hereinafter referred to as the “Council” ) and such persons who shall herinafter be admitted as members of the body corporate hereby constituted shall be a body corporate with perpetual sucession under the name and style of the Mashura Coucil of the Siraj Arabic College, Oddamavadi ” (hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation”) and may sue and be sued in all Courts in the said name, with full power and authority to have and use a common seal and to change and alter the same at its discretion.

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

to manage, develop and maintain the Siraj Arabic

to encourage the teaching of Islam in the Arabic

to provide facilities for the training of Ulamas ;

to provide Islamic Religious Education on the basis of approved syllabi of the Ministry of Education of

toencourage the recital from memory of the “Holy

to maintain a separate division for the social,

to grant scholarships to deserving students and to render assistance in any other form as may be deemed necessary to enable them to pursue their studies ;

to provide vocational training to youth ; and

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 desirable or expedient for the promotion or furtherance of the objects of the Corporation or any onc 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 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 engage, employ and dismiss officers and servants required for the carrying out of the objects of the Corporation.

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 Such rules when made may at a like meeting and in like manner be altered, added to, amended or rescinded.

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

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

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

Act.

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, gift, 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 said 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, for or and on account of the Corporation shall be deposited to the credit of the Corporation in one or more banks as the

There shall be paid out of the fund, all sums of money required to defray any expenditure incurred by the

The moneys and property of the Corporation, whcresoever derived shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects as setforth herein and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly, by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise howsoever by way of

The Corporation shall cause proper accounts ww be kept of all the moncys 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

The seal of the Corporation shall not be affixed to any instrument whatsoever cxccpt 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.

Nothingin this Actcontained 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,