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  2. Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka

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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 ...

  3. Category : Amendments of the Constitution of Sri Lanka

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    Pages in category "Amendments of the Constitution of Sri Lanka" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. Politics of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka is a unitary multi-party semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Sri Lanka is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Ministers .

  5. Constitution of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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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]

  6. Thirteenth Amendment - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Indo-Sri Lanka Accord - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972 - Wikipedia

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    The Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972 was a constitution of Sri Lanka, replaced by the 1978 constitution currently in force. It was Sri Lanka's first republican constitution, and its second since independence in 1948. The constitution changed the country's name from Ceylon to Sri Lanka, and established it as an independent republic.

  9. Provincial governments of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    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.