10th Parliament· 154 sittings on record · 30,475 speeches · latest 10 June 2026

The Hon. (Dr.) Harshana Suriyapperuma - Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning

8 May 2025 ·Debate: Debate: Customs Ordinance - Resolution on Import Duties on Motor Vehicles

Public FinanceInfrastructure
AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

The Deputy Minister explained that the Gazette under the Revenue Protection Act, No. 19 of 1962, was part of measures to mobilize revenue while easing restrictions on vehicle imports that had been in place for several years. He noted that several related Gazettes had been issued, with the debate focused on Gazette Extraordinary No. 2421/05 of 27 January 2025.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, a few points regarding this Gazette. On one hand, mobilizing revenue, and on the other, removing obstacles to vehicle imports, which were restricted for years. Several Gazettes were issued; among them, the proposal in Gazette Extraordinary No. 2421/05 dated 27.01.2025 under the Revenue Protection Act, No. 19 of 1962, is what we debate today.

¶ 02 To create the background for vehicle imports,—

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Thursday, 8 May 2025 ·No. 1748426168056758 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
Page · column
not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
Permalink
/lk/speeches/21883

Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Harshana Suriyapperuma - Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 8 May 2025. No. 1748426168056758. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/21883