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| (1) There shall be an Agrarian Services Committee and an Agrarian Services Centre for such area as may be determined by the Commissioner. |
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| (2) Every Agrarian Services Committee shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name. |
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| (3) The members of an Agrarian Services Committee shall be appointed by the Commissioner and shall consist of not more than fourteen persons of whom not more than eight shall be public officers or employees of public corporations and statutory bodies and of whom not more than six shall be owner cultivators or occupiers of agricultural land within the area of such Committee from among the persons selected under the provisions of subsection (10) of section 42 and a member of such Committee shall be entitled to such remuneration as may be prescribed. |
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| (4) The term of office of a member of an Agrarian Services Committee shall be three years, but a member who ceases to hold office by effluxion of time shall be eligible for reappointment. |
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| (5) Any member of an Agrarian Services Committee may resign office by letter addressed to the Commissioner. |
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| (6) Where a member of an Agrarian Services Committee is temporarily unable to discharge the duties of his office on account of ill health, absence from Sri Lanka or any other cause, the Commissioner may appoint some other person to act as a member in his place. |
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| (7) If the Commissioner is satisfied that any member of an Agrarian Services Committee is incapacitated by infirmity of mind or body from discharging the duties of his office or is otherwise unsuited to continue to discharge such duties, the Commissioner may terminate his appointment and appoint another member to such Committee: |
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| (8) The members of an Agrarian Services Committee shall annually elect a member from among themselves to preside at meetings of the Committee. |
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| (9) No act or proceeding of an Agrarian Services Committee shall be deemed to be invalid by reason only of the existence of any vacancy among its members. |
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| (10) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, an Agrarian Services Committee shall have the power to fix and regulate its own procedure including the power to determine the number of members necessary to form a quorum. |
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| (11) The Commissioner may, at any time he considers it expedient or necessary so to do, convene and preside at a meeting of an Agrarian Services Committee. |
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