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PARLIAMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF
SRI LANKA
GAMPAHA WICKRAMARACHCHI AYURVEDA
TEACHING HOSPITAL (TRANSFER)
ACT, NO. 51 OF 2007
[Certified on 23rd October, 2007]
Printed on the Order of Government
Published as a Supplement to Part II of the Gazette of the Democratic
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of October 26, 2007
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T–4 TDK
PL 001977
Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Teaching 1
Hospital (Transfer) Act, No. 51 of 2007
[Certified on 23rd October, 2007]
L.D.—O. 62/2005.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSFER OF THE GAMPAHA
WICKRAMARACHCHI AYURVEDA TEACHING HOSPITAL TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF AYURVEDA AND TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS
CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO.
WHEREAS a college called and known as the Gampaha Preamble.
Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Vidyalaya was incorporated
by Act, No. 30 of 1982 under the name and style of the
Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Vidyalaya
(hereinafter referred to as “the Vidyalaya”) :
AND WHEREAS an Ayurveda Teaching Hospital has been
established and maintained by the said Vidyalaya to train
medical students and provide free medical aid to patients
and such hospital has been functioning under the said
Vidyalaya since its incorporation :
AND WHEREAS by an Order under section 24B of the
Universities Act, No. 16 of 1978, the said Vidyalaya was
recognized as an Institute for Higher Learning and was
affiliated to the University of Kelaniya resulting in the
transfer of the said Ayurveda Teaching Hospital to the said
University of Kelaniya :
AND WHEREAS the said University of Kelaniya has
requested the State to take over and manage the said
Ayurveda Teaching Hospital and it will be in the public
interest to provide for such transfer :
NOW THEREFORE be enacted by the Parliament of the
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :—
1. This Act51 may be cited as the Gampaha Short title and
Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Teaching Hospital (Transfer) date of
Act, No. 51 of 2007 and shall come into operation on such operation.
date (hereinafter referred to as “the appointed date”) as
the Minister may appoint by Order published in the
Gazette.
2 —PL 001977—4,350 (05/2007)
2 Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Teaching
Hospital (Transfer) Act, No. 51 of 2007
Transfer of 2. (1) The Ayurveda Teaching Hospital morefully
Gampaha described in the Schedule hereto, along with all
Wickramarachchi installations, plants, equipments and property of
Ayurveda whatsoever description used for the purposes of the
Teaching hospital on the day preceding the appointed date, which
Hospital to the
was attached to the Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda
Department of
Vidyalaya affiliated to the University of Kelaniya by virtue
Ayurveda.
of the Order made under section 24B of the Universities
Act, No. 16 of 1978 and published in Gazette
Extraordinary No. 859/12 of February 23, 1995, shall with
effect from the appointed date stand transferred to the
Department of Ayurveda, without any payment whatsoever
being made in respect thereof as compensation or
otherwise.
(2) All persons who are employees of the Gampaha
Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Vidyalaya, on the day
preceding the appointed date shall be offered employment
in the Department of Ayurveda and shall be employed by
such Department on terms and conditions not less
favourable than those enjoyed by them on the day
preceding the appointed date and their period of service
commencing on the date of their appointment to the staff
of the hospital and ending on the date on which this Act
comes into operation, shall be deemed to be pensionable
service under the Government :
Provided however, those employees who do not accept
such offer shall be considered as having voluntarily retired
from their service with effect from the appointed date and
shall be entitled to the payment of such compensation or
gratuity by the Government in such amount as shall be
determined by the Cabinet of Ministers, in addition to any
benefits they may be entitled to on retirement.
(3) From and after the appointed date —
(a) all actions and proceedings instituted by, or
against the University of Kelaniya relating to the
hospital and pending on the day preceding the
appointed date, shall with effect from the
appointed date, be deemed to be actions and
proceedings instituted by or against the
Department of Ayurveda and may be continued
accordingly ;
Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Teaching 3
Hospital (Transfer) Act, No. 51 of 2007
(b) all judgments and decrees entered in favour of,
or against the University of Kelaniya relating to
the hospital, and remaining unsatisfied on the day
preceding the appointed date shall with effect
from the appointed date, be deemed to be
judgments and decrees entered in favour of or
against the Department of Ayurveda as the case
may be, and may be enforced accordingly ;
(c) all rights and liabilities of the University of Kelaniya
relating to the hospital and subsisting on the day
preceding the appointed date shall, with effect from
the appointed date, be deemed to be rights and
liabilities of the Department of Ayurveda.
3. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala Sinhala text to
and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. prevail in case of
inconsistency.
4. In this Act — Interpretation.
“University of Kelaniya” means the University of
Kelaniya established by an Order made under
section 25B of the Universities Act, No. 16 of
1978.
SCHEDULE (Section 2)
All that allotment of land called and known as Kongahawatta, marked
Lot 1 in Tracing No. Gam/Gam/03/275—B dated September and
October 2003 and certified on 12/11/2003 by I. A. Wijethilaka,
Superintendent of Surveys Gampaha, situated in the Village of Yakkala
in the Meda Pattu, in the Divisional Secretaries Division of Gampaha in
the District of Gampaha Western Province, together with all the buildings
and plantations standing thereon including the Gampaha Wickramarachchi
Ayurveda Hospital complex and containing in extent One Acre and Thirty
Five point Twelve Decimals (A01. R0. P35.12) as per the said Tracing.

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