Words starting with P

public performance

Defined in Intellectual Property Act 2003, s 5

“means— (a) in the case of a work other than an audiovisual work, the recitation, playing, dancing, acting or otherwise performing the work in public either directly or by means of any device or process; (b) in the case of an audiovisual …”

public private partnership

Defined in Sri Lanka Electricity Act 2024, s 52

“means, the entering into a long term agreement with an investor for the provision of electricity, energy storage, ancillary services or transmission services where the capital investments will be substantially borne by the investor”

public property

Defined in Proceeds of Crime Act 2025, s 150

“shall have the same meaning assigned to it by the Offences Against Public Property Act”

public resources

Defined in Parliamentary Budget Office Act 2023, s 46

“means any property or asset owned by any Public Institution, including, but not limited to, money, funds, land, buildings, facilities, equipment, supplies and vehicles”

public service pensioner

Defined in National Insurance Trust Fund Act 2006, s 30

“means a public officer who has retired from service and is in receipt of a pension from the government”

public transportation system

Defined in Suppression of Terrorist bombings Act 1999, s 14

“means all facilities, conveyances and instrumentalities, whether publicly or privately owned, that are used in or for publicly available services for the transportation of persons or cargo”

Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka

Defined in Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority Act 2007, s 70

“means the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka established by the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka Act…”

public-private partnership

Defined in Public Financial Management Act 2024, s 70

“means a long-term contract between a private party and a Government entity for providing a public asset or service in which the private party bears significant risk and management responsibility”

publish

Defined in Contempt of a Court, Tribunal or Institution Act 2024, s 16

“means, to disseminate, distribute, exhibit, provide or communicate by oral, visual, written, electronic or other means including by way of newspaper, radio, television or through the use of the internet or other online communication …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

published

Defined in Intellectual Property Act 2003, s 5

“means a work or a sound recording— (a) copies of which have been made available to the public in a reasonable quantity for sale, rental, public lending or for transfer of the ownership or the possession of the copies; or (b) which has been …”

purchase

Defined in Secured Transactions Act 2024, s 75

“includes obtaining by sale, lease, mortgage, pledge, lien, gift or any other consensual transaction creating an interest in movable property”

purpose not prohibited under this Convention

Defined in Chemical Weapons Convention Act 2007, s 47

“means: (a) industrial, agricultural, research, medical, pharmaceutical or other peaceful purposes; Chemical Weapons Convention (b) protective purposes, namely those purposes directly related to protection against toxic chemicals and to …”

purposes of civil aviation

Defined in Civil Aviation Act 2010, s 124

“includes all purposes connected with air navigation, except any purpose connected to the defence of Sri Lanka by air.”