The Hon. (Dr.) Anil Jayantha
Moved an amendment to Clause 15 to insert a definition of “gross negligence” into the Bill, specifying conduct done with awareness of an unjust risk and disregard of reasonable care to avert it. The amendment was agreed to, the remaining clauses and title were approved, and the Bill was reported with amendments. He then moved the Third Reading and sought leave to correct linguistic, printing, grammatical, numbering, and consequential errors, after which the Bill was passed.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Presiding Member, I move the following amendment to Clause 15 (Amendment of section 55 of the principal enactment):
¶ 02 On page 15, immediately before line 18, insert the following new definition before the definition of “any person under the authority of the Auditor-General”:
¶ 03 “‘gross negligence’ means such act or conduct done with awareness of an unjust risk attendant to such act or conduct, but in disregard of taking reasonable care to avert such risk, resulting in such act or conduct.”
¶ 04 Amendment put, and agreed to.
¶ 05 Clause 15, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
¶ 06 Clause 16 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
¶ 07 Enacting Clause and Title ordered to stand part of the Bill.
¶ 08 Bill reported with Amendments.
¶ 09 Hon. Presiding Member, I move: “That the Bill, as amended, be now read a Third time.”
¶ 10 Further, I seek leave to correct any linguistic, printing, grammatical and numbering errors in the schedules of the Bill and to make consequential amendments.
¶ 11 Question put, and agreed to.
¶ 12 Bill, as amended, accordingly read the Third time, and passed.
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Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Anil Jayantha. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 11 September 2025. No. 1758278142029989. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/1511