LOCAL GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS)



LOCAL GOVERNMENT (ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS)
AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE PROVISION FOR DEFINING THE AREAS FOR WHICH ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT MAY BE APPOINTED AND TO ENABLE SUCH ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS TO EXERCISE, DISCHARGE AND PERFORM, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE AREAS AFORESAID, CERTAIN POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE COMMISSIONER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Ordinance Nos,
57 of 1946
Act Nos,
22 of 1955
[30th November
, 1946 ]
Short title.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Local Government (Administrative Regions) Ordinance.

Power to define administrative regions and to appoint Assistant Commissioners of Local Government therefor.

2. For the purposes of facilitating the enforcement of the laws relating to Local Government and other laws which are of local application-

(a) the Minister may by Order[3] published in the Gazette, divide Ceylon into administrative regions (each of which is hereinafter referred to as a ” region”) and define each such region either by setting out the metes and bounds of that region or by enumerating the provinces, administrative districts or divisions or parts thereof comprised in that region; and

(b) there may be appointed[3] an Assistant Commissioner of Local Government (hereinafter referred to as an ” Assistant Commissioner “) for each such region.

Office.

3. The Assistant Commissioner for each region shall establish and maintain an office within the limits of the region and shall cause a notice, indicating the place at which such office is situated, to be published within such limits in such manner as he may deem best calculated to give publicity thereto.

Assistant commissioners to exercise, &c., Commissioner of Local Government

4. With effect from such date*[* 1st February, 1947.-Gazette No. 9,647 of 3rd January, 1947.] as the Governor may appoint by Order published in the Gazette and subject to the general powers direction and control of the Commissioner of the Local Government, the Assistant Commissioner for each region may exercise, discharge or perform, within the limits of such region, any power, function or duty vested in, assigned to or imposed on the Commissioner by any written law.

Chapter 265 , Volume No. 9 Page No.676.