The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake

Jathika Jana balawegaya· National List· 17 February 2026 ·Procedural: Select Committee on Electoral Laws - Motion with Amendment

Parliamentary Procedure

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Hon. Bimal Rathnayake stated that the matter should proceed by amending the Motion rather than further debate. He proposed suspending the Standing Order requiring five days’ notice so that the Motion on the Order Paper could be approved in amended form, as suggested by Hon. Ravi Karunanayake.

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¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, we do not need to get into this further. What is needed now is to amend the Motion. Since a Motion on the Order Paper cannot be amended without following procedure, we should adopt the procedural route: suspend the Standing Order that requires five days’ notice and then approve the Motion as amended, as proposed by Hon. Ravi Karunanayake.

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Source: Hansard, Tuesday, 17 February 2026 ·No. 23279 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 17 February 2026. No. 23279. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/6006