Volume VII

SRI SHAKYASINHARAM VIHARASTHA KARYASADHAKA SANVIDANAYA (INCORPORATION) ACT

Arrangement of Sections

1. Short title.

2. Incorporation of the Sri Shakyasinharama Viharastha Karyasadhaka Sanvidanaya.

3. General objects of the body corporate.

4. Body corporate to ensure no conflict with work of Ministry or Department of the Government or any Provincial Council.

5. Management of the affairs of the body corporate.

6. Powers of the body corporate.

7. Rules of the body corporate.

8. Register of members.

9. Fund of the body corporate.

10. Accounts and auditing.

11. Annual report.

12. Debts due by and payable to the Organisation.

13. Body corporate may hold property movable and immovable.

14. Application of moneys and property.

15. Seal of the body corporate.

16. Property remaining on dissolution.

17. Saving of the rights of the Republic.

18. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.

15 of 2022.

AN ACT to incorporate the Sri Shakyasinharama Viharastha Karyasadhaka Sanvidanaya.

[Date of Commencement: 20th May, 2022]

WHEREAS an Organisation called and known as the “Sri Shakyasinharama Viharastha Karyasadhaka Sanvidanaya” has heretofore been established in Sri Lanka for the purpose of effectually carrying out its objects and transacting all matters connected with the said Organisation according to the rules agreed to by its members:

AND WHEREAS the said Organisation has heretofore successfully carried out and transacted the several objects and matters for which it was established and has applied to be incorporated and it will be for the public advantage to grant the said application.

1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Sri Shakyasinharama Viharastha Karyasadhaka Sanvidanaya (Incorporation) Act.

2. Incorporation of the Sri Shakyasinharama Viharastha Karyasadhaka Sanvidanaya.

(1) From and after the date of commencement of this Act, such and so many persons as now are members of the Sri Shakyasinharama Viharastha Karyasadhaka Sanvidanaya (hereinafter referred to as the “Organisation”) and shall hereafter be admitted as members of the body corporate hereby constituted shall have perpetual succession under the name and style of the “Sri Shakyasinharama Viharastha Karyasadhaka Sanvidanaya” (hereinafter referred to as the “body corporate”), 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.

(2) The body corporate shall be deemed to be a Voluntary Social Service Organisation within the meaning and for the purpose of the Voluntary Social Services Organisations (Registration and Supervision) Act and the provisions of that Act shall apply to and in relation to the management of the affairs of the body corporate.

3. General objects of the body corporate.

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

(a) to attend activities on religious development and the development of the persons;