Mr. Speaker [The Hon. (Dr.) Jagath Wickramaratne]

22 February 2025 ·Opening: Opening: Parliament Convenes and Papers Tabled

Parliamentary Procedure

AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Under Standing Order 126(1), the Chair announced the nomination of Hon. Attorney-at-Law Harshana Nanayakkara, Hon. (Dr.) Nihal Abeysinghe, and Hon. (Prof.) Pathmanathan Sivalingam to the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, following consultations with party leadership. He also informed Members of a special meeting with Party Leaders or nominees and the Committee on Parliamentary Business at 11.00 a.m. in Committee Room No. 2, to be followed by a meeting of the Committee of Selection, and requested the attendance of those concerned.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 The Parliament met at 9.30 a.m.

¶ 02 ANNOUNCEMENTS

¶ 03 Committee on Constitutional Affairs: Nomination of Members

¶ 04 Under Standing Order 126(1), I wish to inform the House that the following three Members have been nominated by me, after consultation with the Prime Minister, the Leader of the House and the Leader of the Opposition, to serve on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs: - Hon. Attorney-at-Law Harshana Nanayakkara - Hon. (Dr.) Nihal Abeysinghe - Hon. (Prof.) Pathmanathan Sivalingam

¶ 05 I also wish to inform all Hon. Members that a special meeting with Party Leaders/their nominees and Members of the Committee on Parliamentary Business is scheduled for today, Saturday, 22nd February, 2025 at 11.00 a.m. in Committee Room No. 2 under my chairmanship, to be followed immediately by a meeting of the Committee of Selection. All Hon. Members concerned are requested to attend.

¶ 06 PAPERS PRESENTED

Provenance

Source: Hansard, Saturday, 22 February 2025 ·No. 1741001658041256 ·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/24924

View source PDF ↗ Suggest a correction

Cite as: Mr. Speaker [The Hon. (Dr.) Jagath Wickramaratne]. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 22 February 2025. No. 1741001658041256. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/24924