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The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake

Jathika Jana balawegaya· National List· 19 March 2025 ·Procedural: Ministerial Motions: Standing Order Amendments (SO 112-129)

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Bimal Rathnayake moved a motion to vary Standing Order 112 and a previous parliamentary resolution to set the composition of Ministerial Consultative Committees for the First Session of the Tenth Parliament. The motion provides that each committee will be chaired by the relevant Minister and include the State Minister, Deputy Minister, and 29 other MPs nominated by the Committee on Selections, as determined at its meeting on 15 March 2025. The motion was put to the House and agreed to.

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¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, I move:

¶ 02 “That, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Standing Order 112 of Parliament and the Resolution passed by Parliament on 06th December 2024, as determined by the Committee on Selections at its meeting held on 15th March 2025, the Ministerial Consultative Committees for the First Session of the Tenth Parliament shall consist of the Minister in charge of the relevant subject as Chair, the State Minister, the Deputy Minister and twenty-nine (29) other Members of Parliament to be nominated by the Committee on Selections.”

¶ 03 Question put, and agreed to.

¶ 04 LEGISLATIVE STANDING COMMITTEE

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Hansard, Wednesday, 19 March 2025 ·No. 1748499233099643 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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