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Measurement Units, Standards And Service Act (No. 35 of 1995) - Sect 35

Fund

35.
(1) For the purpose of this Act, there shall be established a Fund which shall be maintained in such manner as the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minute may direct.
(2) There shall be paid into the Fund two-thirds of each and every fee charged and prescribed. The balance one-third of each and every fee shall be paid into th" Consolidated Fund.
(3) There shall be paid oat of the Fund-
(a) all sums of money paid an annual dues and other payments as a member state of the International Organisation of Legal Metrology and the expenses incurred in the participation at its meetings;
(b) all expenses incurred in the calibration of Sri Lanka reference, secondary and tertiary standards including expenses incurred in the participation in any international or regional programme for the inter comparison of such standards;
(c) all expenses incurred in the cost of maintenance of the Measurement Units, Standards and Services Department and the laboratory, and all other offices where standards are maintained;
(d) all sums of money paid as rewards to any person or persons under section 57;
(e) all expenses incurred in the maintenance of machinery, equipment and vehicles used in the Measurement Units Standards and Services Department and the laboratory;
(f) all expenses incurred in providing facilities for testing and verifying weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments under section 24;
(g) all expenses incurred in providing calibration serviced under Parts V and VI of this Act, and examination of the pattern of any weight, measure and weighing or measuring instrument under section 20; and
(h) all expenses incidental to the proper management and administration of the Measurement Units, Standards and Services Department and the laboratory.
(4) The Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister shall, as goon as possible, after the end of each financial year, prepare a report of the administration of the Fund and shall cause to be "maintained a full and appropriate account of the Fund in respect of each financial year.
(5) The Auditor-General shall audit the accounts of the Fund in accordance with Article 154 of the Constitution.
(6) The financial year of the land shall be the calendar year.

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