Principle Elements To Be Enshrined In The New Constitution

By Varatharaja Perumal –January 28, 2016 

Varatharaja Perumal

To the Public Representation Committee on Constitutional Reform;

I, A. Varatharaja Perumal, former Chief Minister of the North-East Province of Sri Lanka, humbly submit this note of my Suggestions, before the Honourable Public Representation Committee, with an honest intention of presenting it to the consideration of the makers of the new Constitution of United Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

1. Supremacy of the Constitution
2. Basic Principles to be Entranced in the PREAMBLE
3. Judiciary and the Administration of the Justice
4. Structure of the Central and the Provincial States
5. Electoral Reform
6. Territorial Demarcation of the Devolution units
7. Basis for Devolution of Powers
8. Formation of the Central and the Provincial governments
9. System of Exercising of Legislative Powers
10. List of Executive Powers Instead of Lists of Legislative Powers
11. During Emergency and Under the Public Security
12. Public Administration Bureaucratic Structure (PABS)
13. Provincial Police Administration
14. Lists and System of Levying Taxes, Duties, Fees and other Revenue of and to the Provincial Administration
15. DEVOLUTION COMMISSION
16. Equality among the National Communities
17. The Constitutional Provisions to Ensure Equality in the Employment of All the State Establishments and Educational Opportunities.
18. National Planning and Financial Commission (HPFC) and Provincial Planning Commissions (PPC)
19. Protocol Status, Rights, Privileges of the PECC Ministers, the PLAA Members and the Provincial Administrative Officers
20. Status of Pre-Constitution laws including ordinances
21. Interpretation of important terms and phrases

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