Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation (Amendment) Law

Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation (Amendment) Law A LAW TO AMEND THE CEYLON BROADCASTING CORPORATION ACT, NO. 37 OF 1966. BE it enacted by the National State Assembly of the Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:- Short title. 1. This Law may be cited as the Ceylon Broad casting Corporation (Amendment) Law. No. 5 of 1974. Replacement of section 21 of Act.No.37 of1966 2. Section 21 of the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation Act, No. 37 of 1966 (hereinafter referred to as the ” principal Act “), is hereby repealed and the following new section is substituted therefor:- “Officers and servants of the Department of Broadcasting. 21. (1) Within two years after the appointed date any officer or servant of the Department of Broadcasting who does not belong to a transferable service of the Government may be employed by the Corporation on such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon by that officer or servant and the Corporation; and in any such case paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subsection. (3) of section 9 of the Motor Transport Act, No 48 of 1957, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any such officer or servant. Any such officer or servant who is employed by the Corporation may within two years after the date on which be was so employed, opt to retire from the service of the Corporation, and if on the date on which he was so employed his substantive post in the Department of Broadcasting was a post declared to be pensionable under the Minutes on Pensions, he shall, if he so opts to retire, be eligible, notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section, for such an award under those Minutes as might have been made to him if he had retired from the state service on the ground of abolition of post on the date on which he was so employed by the Corporation. (2) Where an officer or servant of the Department of Broadcasting, not belonging to a transferable service of the Government, is not employed by the Corporation within two years after the appointed date, he shall be retired; and if on the date of his retirement his substantive post in that Department was a post declared to be pensionable under the Minutes on Pensions, he shall be eligible for such an award under those Minutes as might have been made to him if he had retired from the state service on the ground of abolition of post on the date of his retirement.”. Provisions of section 2 operative from the date on which the principal Act came into operation. 3. The provisions of section 2 shall be deemed to have come into operation on the date on which the principal Act came into operation.