| (1) The Commission shall have the following powers: -
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| (a) to determine all matters relating to methods of recruitment to, and conditions of employment in, the service, and the principles to be followed in making appointments to the service and in making promotions and transfers from one post in the service to another; | | |
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| (b) to recruit, appoint, promote, transfer, dismiss, retire, interdict, or otherwise punish, members of the service and generally to maintain discipline in the service; | | |
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| (c) to conduct examinations for appointments to the service or to appoint boards of examiners for the purpose of conducting such examinations, and to charge fees from candidates presenting themselves for examinations; | | |
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| (d) to classify the posts in the service into classes or grades, to determine the qualifications necessary for appointment to any such post or to posts in any class or grade, to fix the scale of salaries to be attached to any such post or to posts in any class or grade, and to revise or adjust with effect from such date as the Commission may determine any scale so fixed; | | |
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| (e) to determine the cases in which disciplinary action against members of the service may be taken by local authorities generally or by local authorities of any specified description, or by any particular local authority, and the punishments which such authorities or authority may impose on such members; | | |
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| (f) to call upon any local authority to keep the prescribed records relating to members of the service; | | |
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| (g) to call upon any local authority to furnish before a specified date such files, other documents or information as the Commission may require in respect of any member of the service in the employment of that local authority; | | |
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| (h) upon the failure of any local authority to furnish any files, other documents or information required under paragraph (g), to authorize, with the approval of the Minister, any member or officer of the Commission to enter the office of the local authority and to obtain such files, other documents or information, as the case may be, and for the purpose of obtaining such files or other documents or information, to search that office and to remove such files or other documents from that office to the office of the Commission and to keep such files or other documents in the office of the Commission for such period as the Commission may deem necessary, and to inspect and take copies of any books, accounts or other documents kept in the office of the local authority; | | |
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| (i) to regulate in the prescribed manner a scheme for providing medical facilities to members of the service and their wives and children and for providing financial assistance or relief to members of the service who are in debt; | | |
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| (j) to authorize any member or members of the Commission or any retired civil list officer or officers to hold an inquiry, in any case involving the exercise of the disciplinary powers of the Commission or in any such case of any specified class or description, for the purpose of making recommendations to the Commission in regard to the exercise of such powers in such case; | | |
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| (k) to delegate, subject to such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Commission, and subject to the provisions of such regulations as may be made for the purpose, to local authorities of any specified description or to any particular local authority any of the powers (other than the power to appoint or dismiss members of the service), duties or functions conferred or imposed upon, or vested in, the Commission by or under this Act; | | |
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| (l) to make rules under this Act; | | |
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| (m) to exercise such other powers as may be vested in the Commission by Order made by the Minister under this section and published in the Gazette. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts