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Business of the House


Presentation of Papers

(i) Annual Report of the Road Development Authority for the year 2009
(ii) Annual Report of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation for the year 2010


Main Business of the House for Today

The following Motions (appearing as Item No. 1 to 4 of today’s Order Paper) were moved by the House. The following Motions were Passed:-

Pre Budget Debate prior to passing of the Budget

That this Parliament resolves that, like in India and United Kingdom, there must be a Pre Budget Debate on estimates provided, three months before passing of the Budget in order to mitigate and rectify any adverse or unfavorable impacts.

Protecting the professional dignity of the medical field

That this Parliament resolves since the ordinary patients are faced with grave problems and have become immensely helpless owing to doctors without necessary professional qualifications and experience practicing in the local and international medical field, and whereas the professionally qualified doctors in the medical field sustain disgrace in society as a result of it, that it is imperative to act properly, efficiently and lawfully in order to protect the professional dignity of the medical field.

Granting a higher position to the Quaziz Court System

That this Parliament is of the opinion that the Quaziz Court System that was established in Sri Lanka under the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Ordinance of 1929 and subsequently amended under the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act in 1951 must be upgraded with powers vested with the Quaziz judges to adjudicate upon all matters concerned with disputes arising in Muslim families and also the status of the Quaziz Court System must be upgraded in such a manner where sittings be held in premises congenial to the dignity of the system and as the Quaziz judges are appointed by the Judicial Service Commission they should be placed on a respectable and an acceptable salary structure payable to other judicial officers.

The following motion was Lapsed:-

Conservation of the Ussangoda Mountain Site

That this Parliament resolves since the Ussangoda mountain range area on the coastal belt in the south belonging to the Ambalantota Divisional Secretariat Division, popularly known as the Horton Plains of the South and identified as a site belonging to Middle Paleolithic has inherited an immense importance as an open settlement site from which twenty eight thousand years old geometrical tools and rocks have been discovered and also as a site extremely rich in marine and land bio-diversity and an ideal turtle habitat and as a wall that protected people from the Tsunami waves, hence it be declared an eco-system to be protected by immediately putting a stop to the project proposed to be launched there.


Second Reading of the following Bills (appearing as Item Nos. 120 to 124 of today’s Order Paper) were moved by the House and referred to the Standing Committees (Legislative) :-

• Institute of Martial Arts (Incorporation) – Standing Committee “B”
• Animal Welfare – Standing Committee “B”
• (Dr.) Malani Fonseka Foundation (Incorporation) – Standing Committee “B”
• Moneragala District Kantha Maha Sangamaya (Incorporation) – Standing Committee “B”
• D.M. Dassanayake Social Services and Charity Foundation (Incorporation) – Standing Committee “A”


The Parliament was, thereafter adjourned at 1700 Hrs. until 1300 Hrs. on Tuesday 20th March 2012.

This is an unedited version. For the official record of this day's proceedings, please refer the Hansard






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