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| (1) A service to be called and known as the Local Government Service is hereby constituted. |
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| (2) The Local Government Service shall consist of all monthly paid officers and servants of Municipal Councils, Urban Councils, Town Councils and Village Councils other than the officers and servants whose posts are specified in Part III of the Schedule hereto. |
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| (3) Every person who was, on the day immediately preceding the appointed date, a monthly paid officer or servant of any local authority (other than an officer or servant whose post is specified in Part III of the Schedule hereto), or a member of the Local Government Service constituted by the repealed Ordinance shall, with effect from the appointed date, be deemed to be a member of the Local Government Service constituted by this Act. |
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| (4) Every member of the service shall, so long as he continues as such member, be deemed for all purposes to be in the service of the Commission notwithstanding that he is for the time being employed under a local authority and notwithstanding that his salary is paid out of the funds of that local authority. |
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| (5) Every member of the service shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning and for the purposes of the Penal Code. |
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| (6) Every member of the service shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning and for the purposes of the Public Servants (Liabilities) Ordinance. |
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| (7) No member of the service shall be dismissed or otherwise punished except in accordance with the provisions of this Act or any rules made thereunder. |
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| (8) No member of the service shall be dismissed unless an order of dismissal is made by at least three members of the Commission. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts