COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

(a)to establish and maintain an academic and educational headquarters for general medical practitioners;

(b)to undertake or assist others in undertaking training courses or other educational activities designed to enhance the medical knowledge and skill of general medical practitioners in Sri Lanka;

(c)to encourage the carrying on by general medical practitioners of research into medical matters with a view to the improvement of general medical practice in any field and to undertake or assist others in undertaking such research;

(d)to encourage the publication by general medical practitioners of original work on medical or scientific subjects connected with general practice;

(e)to establish, maintain, manage and administer any institution for the purpose of providing or promoting courses of study and facilities for the education, instruction and training of medical practitioners, students preparing to qualify as medical practitioners, or persons employed or qualifying to be employed as ancillary personnel in hospitals, dispensaries, clinics, laboratories or similar institutions which have been established to assist medical practitioners in providing medical, surgical and health services;

(f)to construct, equip and maintain libraries and other buildings for the administrative, instructional, residential or any other purposes of the Corporation;

(g)to co-operate with other bodies not formed for profit in all matters relating to or connected with the attainment of the objects for which the Corporation is established;

(h) to collaborate with the Post-Graduate Medical Education Institute (established in affiliation with the University of Ceylon in accordance with the provisions of the University of Ceylon Act, No. 1 of 1972*) in the granting of postgraduate diplomas as a whole or in any subject required to be covered in general practice, whether upon theses or upon outstanding work in or in connexion with general medical practice; and [* Repealed by Act No. 16 of 1978.]

(i) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary for or conducive to the attainment and promotion of the objects of the Corporation:

(i) the Corporation shall not support with its funds any object or endeavour to impose on or procure to be observed by its members or others any regulation, restriction or condition, which if it were an object of the Corporation would make it a trade union,

(ii) the Corporation shall not attempt directly or indirectly to secure the passing of legislation to the effect that the passing of any examination under the aegis of the Corporation, or the holding of any diploma or other certificate issued by the Corporation, shall be a qualification to act as a registered medical practitioner.

(1) The affairs of the Corporation shall, subject to the rules in force for the time being of the Corporation made as hereinafter provided, be administered by a Council of the Corporation consisting of such office-bearers and other members as may be provided for in such rules and elected in accordance therewith.

(2) The founder members of the College whose names are set out in the Second Schedule to this Law shall be deemed to be the members of the first Council of the Corporation and shall hold office until the first annual general meeting of the Corporation held after the coming into operation of this Law.

(1) The Council of the Corporation shall cause to be kept a register in which every person who at the date of the passing of this Law is a member of the Corporation, and every person thereafter duly admitted a member of the Corporation hereby constituted, shall have his name inscribed.

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

(1) It shall be lawful for the Corporation, from time to time, at any general meeting of the members and by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting, to make rules, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Law, and pass resolutions, for the admission, withdrawal or expulsion of members, for the conduct of the duties of the Council of the Corporation and of the various officers, agents, and servants of the Corporation, and otherwise generally for the management of the affairs of the Corporation and the accomplishment of its objects. Such rules and resolutions when made and passed may, at a like meeting and in like manner, be altered, added to, amended or rescinded.

(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (1), the rules set out in the First Schedule! to this Law shall be deemed to be the rules of the Corporation made under this section and may be altered, added to, amended, rescinded or replaced by rules made under this Law.

(3) All members of the Corporation shall be subject to the rules in force for the time being of the Corporation,

(a) to purchase, acquire, rent, construct and otherwise obtain lands or buildings which may be required for the purposes of the Corporation and may lawfully be acquired for those purposes, and to deal with or dispose of the same as may be deemed expedient with a view to promoting the objects of the Corporation;

(b) to invest any funds not immediately required for the purposes of the Corporation in such manner as the Corporation may think fit and from time to time to vary and transpose any such investments ;

(c) to raise or borrow money for the purposes of the Corporation on any security and to secure or discharge any debt or obligation of the Corporation in such manner as may be thought fit;

(d) to accept grants intended for the pursuance of the objects of the Corporation;

(e) to subscribe or guarantee money for any charitable purpose; and

(f) to undertake, accept, execute, perform and administer any lawful trusts and conditions affecting any real or personal property held or owned or to be held or owned in trust for the Corporation or any other charitable association, institution, society or body and any other charitable trusts.