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Sri Lankan nationality law details the conditions in which a person is a national of Sri Lanka. The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Ceylon Citizenship Act, which came into force on 15 November 1948. Any person born in Sri Lanka to a Sri Lankan parent is automatically a citizen by descent.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 14 September 2001: Minister of Lands, Irrigation and Power [28] [29] Jeewan Kumaranatunga: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 28 January 2007: Mahinda Rajapaksa: Minister of Land and Land Development [30] [31] [32] Janaka Bandara Tennakoon: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 April 2010: Minister of Lands and Land Development [33] [34 ...
Kandyan law is the customary law that originated in the Kingdom of Kandy, which is applicable to Sri Lankans who are Buddhist and from the former provinces of the Kandyan Kingdom before the 1815 Kandyan Convention. It is one of three customary laws which are still in use in Sri Lanka. The other two customary laws are the Thesavalamai and the ...
Between late 1892 and March 1894, Johnston issued 59 Certificates of Claim for land, each of which was equivalent to a freehold title to the land claimed. Very few claims were disallowed or reduced in extent, and around 3.7 million acres, or 15% of the land area of the protectorate, was alienated, mainly to European settlers. No Certificates of ...
At this point 90,000 Indian Tamils who had been granted Indian citizenship were still in Sri Lanka and another 86,000 were in the process of applying for Indian citizenship. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] In 1988 the Sri Lankan Parliament passed the Grant of Citizenship to Stateless Persons Act which granted Sri Lankan citizenship to all Indian Tamils who hadn't ...
The legal system in Sri Lanka comprises collections of codified and uncodified forms of law, of many origins subordinate to the Constitution of Sri Lanka which is the highest law of the island. Its legal framework is a mixture of legal systems of Roman-Dutch law , English law , Kandian law , Thesavalamai and Muslim law .
One of the requirements of the accord was that the Sri Lankan government should devolve powers to the provinces. [1] Accordingly on 14 November 1987 the Sri Lankan Parliament passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Provincial Councils Act No 42 of 1987. [2] [3] On 3 February 1988 nine provincial councils were created ...