The Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri
Chaminda Wijesiri introduced an Amendment Bill to the Kandyan Marriage and Divorce Act, stating that subsections 32(a) and 32(b) treat women differently and should be corrected. The Bill was read a first time, ordered to be printed, and referred under Standing Order No. 52(6) to the Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government for report.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Seconded.
¶ 02 Question put, and agreed to.
¶ 03 Bill accordingly read the First time, and ordered to be printed.
¶ 04 The Bill stood referred, under Standing Order No. 52(6), to the Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government for report.
¶ 05 Hon. Speaker, I have presented this Amendment Bill because women are treated differently under sub-sections 32(a) and (b) of the Kandyan Marriage and Divorce Act, and that situation should be remedied.
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Thursday, 19 February 2026 ·No. 23328 ·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/30347
Cite as: The Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 19 February 2026. No. 23328. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/30347