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The amendment aims at creating provincial councils in Sri Lanka and enable Sinhalese and Tamil as national languages while preserving English as the link language. However, there are practical problems in devolving land, the police and financial powers to the provinces and the Government has stressed that the structure that is implemented ...
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J. R. Jayewardene who came to office in July 1977 with a five-sixths majority passed the second amendment to the 1972 Constitution on 4 October 1977, which made the presidency an executive post. Under its provisions, then Prime Minister Jayawardene automatically became the first Executive President of Sri Lanka on 4 February 1978. [8]
The Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was an accord signed in Colombo on 29 July 1987, between Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayewardene.The accord was expected to resolve the Sri Lankan Civil War by enabling the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Provincial Councils Act of 1987.
Under the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord signed in 1987 and the subsequent 13th Amendment to the Constitution, the Government of Sri Lanka agreed to devolve some authority to the provinces. Provincial councils are directly elected for five-year terms.
Provincial governments of Sri Lanka are the devolved governments of the nine Provinces of Sri Lanka. In accordance with the Sri Lankan constitution , provinces have legislative power over a variety of matters including agriculture, education, health, housing, local government, planning, road transport and social services.
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which stripped the president of many of his reserve powers; Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa, which re-enacted provisions of the Twelfth Amendment; Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, which created Provincial Councils in Sri Lanka
The State Council of Ceylon was the unicameral legislature for Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), established in 1931 by the Donoughmore Constitution.The State Council gave universal adult franchise to the people of the colony for the first time.