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Sri Lanka has a long history of local government. [7] According to the Mahavamsa the earliest Sinhalese settlements, dating to the 4th century BC, were village based. These villages were used by the Sinhalese kings as a unit of administration. Each village was independently administered.
Local Government Secretaries; Name Took office Left office Title Refs Nihal Jayathilaka: 25 April 2010: Local Government and Provincial Councils Secretary [60] [61] R. A. A. K. Ranawaka: 12 July 2012: Local Government and Provincial Councils Secretary [62] J. Dadallage: 19 January 2015
The Gazette is published in Sinhalese, Tamil, and English which are three official languages of Sri Lanka. It publishes promulgated bills, presidential decrees, governmental ordinances, major legal acts as well as vacancies, government exams, requests for tender, changes of names, company registrations and deregistrations, land restitution notices, liquor licence applications, transport ...
It was chaired by the Government Agent, and consisted of 6 representatives: 3 members of the public and 3 Government officials. [2] In 1930, the Moratuwa Urban Council was established. The gazette was issued in January 1928, elections held in 1929, and the council first met in January 1930.
The normal term of a local authority is four years but the law allows the central government to extend this by a further year. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The term of the 234 local authorities (3 MC, 30 UC, 201 DC) that had their election on 17 March 2011 was due to expire on 31 March 2015 but on 27 March 2015 their term was extended to 15 May 2015.
The council grew from six to ten wards, [6] and the council boundaries expanded over time with various Gazette notifications. Currently, the council governs an area of 5.8 square kilometres (2.2 sq mi) covering 19 Grama Niladhari divisions, with a total population of 35,803, and 24,166 electors.
Vavuniya South Sinhala Divisional Council was established as the local authority for Vavuniya South DS Division. However, according to the pro-LTTE TamilNet, the Sri Lankan government had suspended all local government in the north and east of the country in 1983 using emergency regulations. [1]
There are 276 Pradeshiya Sabhas in Sri Lanka, which are the legislative bodies that preside over the third tier municipalities in the country. [1] Introduced in 1987 through the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, Pradeshiya Sabhas became a devolved subject under the Provincial Councils in the Local Government system of Sri Lanka. [2]