The Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya - Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education
The Prime Minister presented the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption’s performance reports for the first three quarters of 2024 and moved that they be referred to the Committee on Parliamentary Business, which was agreed to. She also presented an amendment instrument to the Sri Lanka-India double taxation avoidance agreement under Section 75(1) of the Local Revenue Act, No. 24 of 2017, and moved that it be referred to the Committee on Public Finance, which was also agreed to.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, I present the performance reports of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption for the first, second and third quarters of 2024.
¶ 02 I move that these be referred to the Committee on Parliamentary Business under the Constitution.
¶ 03 Question put, and agreed to.
¶ 04 Mr. Speaker, under Section 75(1) of the Local Revenue Act, No. 24 of 2017, I present the instrument of amendment, concluded on 16 December 2024, to the Agreement between the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Government of the Republic of India for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income, which was approved by Parliament on 26 July 2013 and published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 1828/9 of 17 September 2013.
¶ 05 I move that this instrument be referred to the Committee on Public Finance.
¶ 06 Question put, and agreed to.
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