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

The Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya - Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education

Jathika Jana balawegaya· Colombo· 6 March 2026 ·Debate: Debate: Resolution on Public Security Ordinance - Extension of State of Emergency

Parliamentary Procedure
AI summary generated by gpt-5.5

Moved for parliamentary approval of the President’s Proclamation under Section 2 of the Public Security Ordinance, bringing Part II of the Ordinance into operation throughout Sri Lanka from 28 February 2026. The motion seeks formal approval of the emergency-related proclamation, and the question was proposed to the House.

Verbatim record (translated)

Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English

¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, I move:

¶ 02 “That the Proclamation made by the President under Section 2 of the Public Security Ordinance (Chapter 40), as amended by Acts No. 8 of 1959, No. 6 of 1978 (of the National State Assembly) and No. 28 of 1988, bringing Part II of the said Ordinance into operation throughout Sri Lanka with effect from 28th February 2026, be approved.”

¶ 03 Question proposed.

Provenance

Source
Hansard, Friday, 6 March 2026 ·No. 23376 ·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/5141

Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya - Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 6 March 2026. No. 23376. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/5141