ALL CEYLON BUDDHIST CONGRESS

(a) to promote, foster and protect the interests of Buddhism and of the Buddhists and to safeguard the rights and privileges of the Buddhists;

(b) to promote co-operation among Buddhists and Buddhist associations;

(c) to represent the Buddhists and act on their behalf in public matters affecting their interests;

(d) to provide opportunity to the Buddhists for the free discussion of any matters affecting their interests; charitable

(e) to undertake Buddhist activities;

(f)
to engage in fund raising activities for the Corporation and to invest such funds ; “; and

(g) to do all such things as may be necessary or conducive to the interests or benefit of the Buddhists or to the attainment of the abovementioned objects or any of them.

(1) The affairs of the Corporation shall, subject to the rules for the time being of the Corporation, be administered by an executive committee which shall consist of the following:-

The ex officio members viz. the honorary members, past Presidents, Presidents of the Palaka Sabha and the representatives of the regional branches and member-associations and hundred other members elected at the annual general meeting of the Corporation

Provided also that out of the hundred members so elected twenty-live shall retire each year. The question as to who shall retire at the end of each year shall be decided on the criterion of least attendance at meetings and if there: arise any difficulties it shall be decided by the working and finance Committee by the drawing of lots.

No member shall serve in the executive committee continuously for more than six successive years but shall be eligible for re-election after the lapse of one year

(2) The executive committee may delegate any of its functions to one or more standing committees or sub-committees.

(1) The secretaries of the corporation shall keep a register of the members of the corporation.

(2) The register of the members of the Corporation shall contain the following particulars:-

(1) The corporation may, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting at an annual general meeting or special general meeting of the corporation, make rules for admission to, and removal from, membership of the corporation, for the performance of the duties of the office-bearers and other members of the executive committee of the corporation, for the procedure in the transaction of business, and otherwise generally for the management of the affairs of the corporation and the accomplishment of its objects.

“(2) Any such rules made by the Corporation under subsection (1) of this section, may at a like meeting and in like manner be amended or rescinded. “,

(3) Subject to the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section, the rules set out in the Schedule to this Act shall be the rules of the corporation.(Schedule omitted.-Private enactment.)