LOCAL AUTHORITIES (IMPOSITION OF CIVIC DISABILITIES) (No. 2) [Cap.591 CHAPTER 591 LOCAL AUTHORITIES (IMPOSITION OF CIVIC DISABILITIES) (No. 2) Law A LAW TO IMPOSE CIVIC DISABILITIES ON PERSONS AGAINST WHOM FINDINGS HAVE No.39of l978. BEEN MADE BY A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY AND TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO. [14th August. 1978.] Preamble. WHEREAS under section 2 of the (2) In the preparation and certification Commissions of Inquiry Act (Chapter 393) under the Local Authorities Elections a Commission of Inquiry consisting of Ordinance of an electoral list for any Senerat Wije Goonewardene, Esquire, was electoral area of any local authority the appointed by the President by Warrant name of every relevant person shall be dated September 14, 1977, and published omitted notwithstanding that the name of in Gazette Extraordinary No. 282/13 of such person appears in the operative September 14, 1977, to inquire into and parliamentary register or part thereof as report upon the matters set out in the said correspond to the electoral area of such Warrant arising out of the administration of local authority. the affairs of each Town specified in such Warrant: (3) The nomination of any such person as a candidate at any such election or the AND WHEREAS the said Commission inclusion of the name of any such person in of Inquiry had in its Report made certain any list or lists of candidates shall be findings against certain persons : deemed, for all purposes, to be null and void. AND WHEREAS it has become necessary in the public interest to impose 3. Every person who is disqualified Disqualifi- under the provisions of section 2(1) shall be cation from civic disabilities on the said persons and to judicial or make other provisions consequent upon the incapable for all time from being appointed other public findings of the said Commission ; to any judicial office or from being office, employed as a state officer or an employee BE it therefore enacted by the National of the Local Government Service, any local State Assembly of the Republic of Sri authority or any scheduled institution or Lanka as follows :— from being elected or appointed or nominated as a member of any scheduled Short title. 1. This Law may be cited as the Local institution or the governing body thereof. Authorities (Imposition of Civic Disabilities) (No. 2) Law. 4. Every person against whom any Disqualifi- finding has been made in the report cations applicable to Relevant 2. (1) Every relevant person shall, fora of the aforesaid Commission of Inquiry and state and other persons period of seven years from the date of who at the date of such report was a officers who disqualified commencement of this Law, be disqualified state officer or an employee of the Local are dismissed from voting or from service being elected. from being registered as a voter or from Government Service or of any local consequent voting at any election of members of any authority and who is dismissed or upon the local authority or from being nominated as discontinued from service after compliance Commission's reports. a candidate at any election of a member or with such procedure as may be applicable to members of any local authority or from the disciplinary control of the category to being elected or from sitting or voting as a which such person belonged, shall become member of any local authority. subject to the same disqualifications as a XIX/91 LOCAL AUTHORITIES Cap.591] (IMPOSITION OF CIVIC DISABILITIES) (No. 2) relevant person as set out in sections 2 and 3 resides or is last known to have resided as from the date of dismissal or discontinuance though such amount were a fine imposed from service. by such Magistrate on such person, notwithstanding that such amount exceeds Recovery of 5. (1) Where in the report of the said the amount of fine which a Magistrate may losses. Commission any finding has been made impose in the exercise of his ordinary « against any person whomsoever that loss jurisdiction. has been caused to any local authority by such person, the Auditor-General shall 6. Every person disqualified under this Offences Law who— under this assess the amount of such loss and issue a Law. certificate under his hand certifying the (a) applies to be registered as a voter ir amount of such loss, after having given an any electoral list in respect of an; opportunity to such person to make local authority; representations to him in regard to the assessment of the amount of such loss by (b) votes at an election of any membci the Auditor-General. of any local authority; (2) The correctness of any statement in (c) signifies his consent to be nominated any such certificate or the amount of the as a candidate at the election of an^ loss certified therein shall not be called in member of any local authority ; question in any proceeding in any court for the recovery of such loss, or otherwise, and (d) sits and votes as a member of an; shall be conclusive of all matters contained local authority; therein, and shall be admissible in evidence (e) accepts the office or acts in th( in the recovery proceedings hereinafter capacity of a judicial officer, statt referred to. officer or employee of the Loca Government Service, any loca (3) A copy of such certificate shall be authority or any schedulec served on the person named therein, and institution; such person shall pay to the Auditor- General the amount set out in the certificate (f) consents to be nominated foi within a period of thirty days from the date election, or accepts appointment, 01 of the posting of such certificate to him. accepts nomination, as a member o any scheduled institution or the (4) A copy of such certificate shall be governing body thereof, deemed to have been duly served upon it being sent to such person by post in a shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, 01 registered letter addressed to his last known conviction before a Magistrate, be liable tc place of residence. a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees 01 to imprisonment of cither description for i (5) The Auditor-General shall credit all term not exceeding three months or to boti such payments received by him to the such fine and imprisonment. respective local authority to which the loss has been found to have been caused in such 7. In this Law, unless the contex Interpretation. report. otherwise requires— (6) Where any person to whom a "local authority" means any Municipal certificate has been delivered as aforesaid Council, Urban Council, Town fails to pay the amount due from him as set Council or Village Council am out in such certificate within the time includes any Authority created am aforesaid, such amount shall be deemed to established by or under any law t< be in default and shall be recovered on exercise and perform powers am application made by the Auditor-General or functions corresponding to o an officer authorized in writing by him in similar to the powers and function, that behalf to the Magistrate's Court having exercised and performed by an; jurisdiction over the place where the person such Council; XIX/92 LOCAL AUTHORITIES (IMPOSITION OF CIVIC DISABILITIES) (No. 2) [Cap. 591 " relevant person " means a person who and means each person specified in has been found by the report of the the Schedule to this Law ; Commission of Inquiry referred to in this Law— scheduled institution" means any such board, institution, corporation or (a) to have committed or to have other body as is for the time being specified in the Schedule to the aided or abetted in the Bribery Act, and any board, commission of any act institution, corporation or other constituting— body which is deemed under the provisions of any enactment to be a (i) abuse of power, scheduled institution within the meaning of the Bribery Act, and includes any organization the (ii) corruption, capital of which is wholly or partly subscribed by such board, (iii) irregularities in the institution, corporation or other making of appointments; body; state officer" means a state officer as (b) to have contravened, or to defined in the Constitution of the have aided or abetted in the Republic of Sri Lanka adopted and contravention of, any enacted on the 22nd day of May, provisions of any written law, 1972,* and includes a public officer. [Section 7.] SCHEDULE Somasiri Galagedare. Ex-Chairman, Kolonnawa Urban Council- Titus Gunatilake, Ex-Chairman, Panadura Urban Council. Balappuwaduge Noel Theodore Mendis. Ex-Member. Panadura Urban Council. Wanniarachchige Martlnus Fonseka. Ex-Chairman, Horana Urban Council. Wanniarachchige Edmund Wanigasekare, Ex-Chairman, Talawakelle-Lindula Urban Council. Sinna Meerapillai Mohamed Ibunu. Ex-Chairman. Putlalam Urban Council. Halawath Mudiyanselage Kiribanda. Ex-Vice-Chairman, Kegalle Urban Council. George Rajapakse Senanayake, Ex-Chairman, Minuwangoda Urban Council. Kiri Banda Sathkumara, Ex-Special Commissioner, Kuliyapitiya Urban Council. Mihindukulasuriya Joseph Petronius Fernando, Ex-Special Commissioner, Chilaw Urban Council. Neal de Alwis. Ex-Deputy Minister of Public Administration, Local Government and Home Affairs. Madduma Patabendige Leelaratne, Ex-Chairman, Weligama Urban Council. Dodanduwa Lebunhewage Handy Silva, Ex-Member, Weligama Urban Council. Don William Samarasinghe. Ex-Member. Weligama Urban Council. Hewawaiam Goluwa Marakkalage Richard Silva. Ex-Member, Weligama Urban Council. Weltasinghe Appuhamilage Edmund Peiris, Ex-Special Commissioner, Nawalapitiya Urban Council. Liyanage Granville Dickson Perera, Ex-Special Commissioner, Nawalapitiya Urban Council. • Repealed by the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, 1978. XIX/93 LOCAL AUTHORITIES Cap.591] (IMPOSITION OF CIVIC DISABILITIES) (No. 2) Kariyawasam Pathiranage Sumathipaia, Ex-Special Commissioner, Nawalapitiya Urban Council.