Sri Lanka Chamber Of Small Industry(Incorporation)

(a) to promote, foster and protect the commerce of Sri Lanka by collecting all statistics concerning the sale, purchase or shipment of produce, and manufactured products or prepared products and goods, as between members of the Corporation, and by seeking redress of grievances;

(b) to encourage, extend, disseminate and promote knowledge and exchange of information and ideas in regard to all commercial questions or matters connected therewith, and to provide a central ‘Organization to train, assist and advise its members

(c) to promote, support and develop the science of management including industrial welfare work, staff management and employment administration;

(d) to consider all questions connected with the trade, manufactories and industries of Sri Lanka, to endeavour to promote or make representations relating to legislative and other measures affecting them and to collect and circulate statistics and other information relating thereto;

(e) to appoint surveyors and to provide for surveys of goods and merchandise and for the issue of survey reports, certificates of origin, quality and weight and measurement;

(f) to advise and assist members on labour laws and regulations and to appear and to arrange legal assistance to members in labour disputes coming up before labour tribunals, courts of law, the Department of Labour or before any other Department or forum;

(g) to form a board of arbitration to parties willing to abide by its decisions and to undertake the settlement of disputes and differences arising out of trade, commerce and industry;

(h) to provide facilities for the delivery of lectures, the holding of classes and examinations and the awarding of scholarships and other rewards in connection with management, as well as to issue certificates of merit and to encourage a greater degree of efficiency in those engaged as executives;

(i) to found scholarships to assist persons desiring to train themselves for commercial careers and to accept donations and endowments for any such purpose, and to act as trustees, custodians and managers of any funds subscribed or donated for any such purpose and generally to undertake and to execute any trusts and to undertake the office of trustee;

(j) to provide facilities to employers in trade, commerce and industries for the recruitment and training of employees ;

(k) to compile, print, publish, lend or distribute proceedings and reports of the Corporation or any papers, communications, statistics, text-books, treatises or subjects connected therewith in Sinhala, Tamil or any other language and to form a library of works relating to industry, trade, management and allied subjects;

(l) to establish contact between potential suppliers and potential purchasers of raw materials necessary in the manufacture and trade and seek licences and concessionary rates of import duty for the import of raw materials;

(m) to do market surveys and negotiate through export houses in Sri Lanka and importers in other countries for the export promotion of local industrial and other produce;

(n) to maintain public relations with the Government and other organizations for and on behalf of the members of the Corporation and to organize consumer councils and give publicity to the products of members;

(o) to negotiate with the Government and obtain suitable land for the purpose of growing raw materials;

(p) to subscribe to, become members of, subsidize and co-operate with, any other association, whether incorporated or not, individual, firm or body, whose objects are altogether or in part similar to those of the Corporation and to obtain from and communicate to, any such association, person or body any information, matter, right or thing as may be likely to promote the objects of the Corporation;

(q) to affiliate, collaborate, federate or co-operate with any other organized body or specialized agency, whether local or foreign, having aims and objects similar to the Corporation and to establish branches in different parts of Sri Lanka and to provide for their affiliation to and with the Corporation, or control, superintend, supervise and assist such branches in such manner as the Corporation may from time to time determine and to cancel, close or otherwise end such branches at the discretion of the Corporation; and

(r) to do all such other things as may be necessary for, or conducive or incidental to, the interests or benefits of the small industries of Sri Lanka or to the attainment of the above objects or any of them or generally to the benefit, protection or advancement of the trade, commerce, manufactories and industries of Sri Lanka.

(1) The Corporation shall have the following powers :-

(2) The powers of the Corporation shall at all times! be exercised subject to the provisions of any written law applicable in that behalf.

(1) The affairs of the Corporation shall, subject to the rules in force for the time being of the Corporation, be administered by a Council of Management, consisting of such number of persons to be elected in accordance with the rules in force for the time being of the Corporation.

(2) The first Council of Management of the Corporation shall be the Council of Management of the Chamber holding office at the time of the coming into operation of this Act.

(1) The Council of Management shall cause to be kept a register in which every person who on the date of commencement of this Act is’ a member of the Chamber, 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 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 Act, for the admission, withdrawal, retirement or expulsion of members and for the management of the affairs of the Corporation and the accomplishment of its objects. Such rules when made may, at a like meeting and in like manner be altered, added to, amended or rescinded.

(2) The rules of the Chamber in force on the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be the rules of the Corporation made under this section and may be altered, added to, amended, rescinded or replace by rules made under this Act.

(3) The members of the Corporation shall be subject to the rules of the Corporation.

(a) the payment in good faith of reasonable and proper remuneration to any officer or employee of the Corporation or to any member of the Corporation for any services rendered to the Corporation;

(b) the payment of interest at a rate not exceeding the prevailing bank rate per annum on money lent, or reasonable and proper rent for premises let, to the Corporation by any member of the Corporation or by any company of which a member of the Corporation is a member holding shares not exceeding one-hundredth part of the capital of the company;

(c) the repayment of expenses incurred by any member, officer or employee of the Corporation in the performance of his functions or duties or in promoting the objects of the Corporation.