Surveyors’ Institute Sri Lanka (Incorporation)

(a) any person folding a licence granted by the Surveyor General to practise as a, land surveyor-or as a leveler or as a surveyor and leveller; and

(b) any person who is for the “time being in the service of the Survey department and holding a post mentioned in paragraph 9 of Schedule A to the Surveyors Ordinance. :

(a) to promote and advance the science and practices of land surveying in all its branches in Sri Lanka ;

(b) to promote and encourage professional conduct members to regulate professional activities and to assist-in maintaining high standards in the general conducts of its members

(c) to maintain correct and uniform practice and discipline among members and to take disciplinary necessary;

(d) to provide opportunities for the acquisition and diffusion of knowledge in respect of land surveying and allied subjects, and for that purpose to establish and maintain libraries and provide other facilities;

(e) to establish, regulate and maintain pension and benefit schemes and other financial arrangements for its members and their dependants

(f) to provide means for the amicable settlement of Pro- professional differences by arbitration or otherwise and to nominate arbitrators ;

(g) to protect arid promote the interests of the members and that of the public in relation to the profession of land surveying

(h) to conduct examinations qualifying for membership of the Corporation;

(i) to conduct examinations to assess the eligibility of candidates for admission to the various grades of membership;

(j) to consider represent and express the opinion of the members of the Corporation and to collect and circulate information relating to legislative and other measures affecting surveyors and land surveying, and to suggest amendments to any law relating to surveyors and land surveying;

(k) to foster coordination with similar professional institutes-and associations in Sri Lanka and other countries in furthering the objects of the Corporation;

(l) generally to protect and promote the interests fare, rights and privileges of the land surveying, profession in Sri Lanka ;and

(m) to do all such other acts and things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them.

(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 consisting of the office-bearers and such other persons as may be provided for in such rules and elected or nominated in accordance therewith.

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

(1) It shall be lawful for the Corporation, from time to time, at any general meeting and by the majority of two- thirds of the members present and qualified to Vote, to make rules, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, 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 Institute in force at the feme of the coming into operation of this Act shall be deemed to be rules of the Corporation made under this section and may be altered, added to, amended, rescinded or replaced by rules made under this Act.

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

(a) of acquiring by purchase, exchange, gift, devise or bequest or in any other manner, and of holding and enjoying in perpetuity or for any lesser term subject to any express trust or otherwise, any property movable or immovable of any nature or kind whatsoever;

(b) of erecting any building on any land vested in or a acquired or held by the Corporation; and

(c) of selling, granting, conveying, assigning or other- wise disposing of any of its properties.

(a) such fees, as the Corporation may deem reasonable for admission to any examination conducted by the Corporation;

(b) fees for the election of persons to any class Of membership of the Corporation; and

(c) such subscription and fees from members of the Corporation as the Corporation may deem reasonable in respect of the services provided by the Corporation.