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Mahaweli Authority Of Sri Lanka Act (No. 23 of 1979) - Sect 22

Special Power of Authority in special Area

22.
(1) The written laws for the time being specified in Schedule B hereto shall have effect in every Special Area subject to the modification that it shall be lawful for the Authority to exercise and discharge in such area any of the powers or functions vested by any such written law in any authority, officer or person in like manner as though the reference in any such written law to the authority, officer or person empowered to exercise or discharge such powers or functions included a reference to the Authority.
(2) No authority, officer or person in which or whom any power or function is vested by any written law for the time being specified in Schedule B hereto shall, in relation to a Special Area, exercise or discharge any such power or function except for the purpose of executing or carrying out any arrangement or contract made by the Authority under section 14.
(3) Any power or function which the Authority is authorized by subsection (1) to exercise or discharge, may be exercised or discharged on behalf of the Authority by any director of the Authority or by any employee of the Authority as is authorized in that behalf by the Authority.
(4) Where he considers it expedient to do so for the efficient discharge of the functions of the Authority, the Minister may, with the concurrence of the Minister concerned and the approval of the President, by Order published in the Gazette amend, alter or vary Schedule B hereto.


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