PARLIAMENT

The Hon. Karu Jayasuriya, the Speaker took the Chair.


Presentation of Papers

(i) The Regulations made by the Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade under Section 20 read with Subsection 3 of Section 4 and Section 14 of the Imports and Exports (Control) Act, No. 1 of 1969 as amended by Acts, No. 48 of 1985 and No. 28 of 1987, published in the Gazette Extraordinary  No. 1999/47 of 30th December 2016

(ii) The Order  made by the Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade under Section 3 (4) of the  Strategic Development Project Act, No. 14 of 2008 relating to the exemptions to be granted in respect of the proposed project and published in the Gazette Extraordinary  No. 1993/34 of 18th November 2016


Presentation of Petitions

Public Petitions were presented by the following Hon. MPP:-

(i) The Hon. Ajith P. Perera
(ii) The Hon. Ranjith Aluvihare

(Petitions stand referred to the Committee on Public Petitions)


Votes of Condolences

Vote of Condolence on the late Hon. M.H. Mohamed, the former Speaker of Parliament and ex-Member of Parliament, was taken up and completed.


The Parliament was, thereafter adjourned at 1445 Hrs. until 1300 Hrs. on Tuesday 7th February 2017.

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