Al-haj N. M. Buhardeen Foundation (Incorporation)

(a) to promote the study of Islam ;

(b) to work for the elimination of social, and other inequalities among the people of Sri Lanka;

(c) to promote the advancement of the educational, religious, cultural, social, and economic welfare of the people of Sri Lanka ;

(d) to promote communal harmony, international friendship and understanding and to inculcate a sense of discipline and self reliance amongst the people of Sri Lanka ;

(e) to organize, promote and encourage competitions, contests, lectures, discussions, displays and demonstrations and to print and publish journals, magazines, hand books, brochures and other literature on Islam ;

(f) to establish and maintain libraries and reading rooms to promote the study and propagation if Islam ;

(g) to grant financial aid and award scholarships to youths for the purpose of pursuing higher education ;

(h) to set up, and to assist in the setting up and management of, vocational training centres to enable youths to develop their vocational skills and competence ;

(i) to assist in the management and conduct of schools, centres and similar institutions engaged in furtherance of education ;

(j) to provide assistance for research activities and improvement of skills and competence of persons engaged in the furtherance of education :

(k) to foster and encourage the research activities, study of Arabic language and literature, and Islamic religion ;

(l) to organize, promote, encourage and afford facilities for the Muslims of Sri Lanka to travel to Mecca ;

(m) to establish and maintain hospitals and maternity homes ;

(n) to provide assistance for rehabilitation of handicapped people ;

(o) to provide free helical assistance, and, conduct free medical camps for the people of Sri Lanka ;

(p) to establish and maintain orphanges and homes for the aged and destitutes ;

(q) to give financial assistance to the needy Muslim women for the purpose of their Nikkah ceremony ; and

(r) to maintain and administer the Janaza Benefit Fund for the Muslims of Sri Lanka.

(1) The management, administration and control of the affairs of that Foundation shall subject to the rule of the Corporation be vested in a Board consisting of not more than nine members appointed by the general body in accordance it the rules of the Foundation

(2) The Board may delegate all or any of its functions to an Executive Council consisting of at least Five members of the Board including the President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Corporation and such Council shall carry out its functions in accordance with the directions of the Board.

(3) The first Board of the Foundation shall be the Board of Directors of the Association holding office on the day preceding the date of commencement of (his Act, and whose names are specified in the Schedule to this Act.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Foundation from time to time at any general meeting of the Foundation and by the votes of. not less than two thirds of the members present and voting, to make rules and ratify rules made by the Board of Directors not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, or any other written law for the admission, withdrawal or expulsion of members, for the election of office-bearers, the Board, The Executive Council and various officers agents and servants of the Foundation for the procedure to be followed in the transaction of business, and otherwise generally, for the management of the affairs of the Foundation and the accomplishment of its objects. Such rules when made or ratified, may at a like meeting and in like manner, be altered, added to, amended or rescinded.

(2) The members of the Foundation shall be subject to the rules of the Foundation.

(a) may be altered in such manner as may be determined by the Executive Council.

(b) shall not be affixed to any instrument or document except with the sanction of the Executive Council and in the presence of two members of the Executive Council who shall sign the instrument or document in token of their presence and such signing shall be independent of the signing of any person as a witness.