Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 37. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires-"local authority " means a Municipal Council, Urban Council, a Pradeshiya Sabha and includes any authority created or established by or under any written law to exercise, perform and discharge, powers, duties and functions corresponding to or. similar to the powers, duties and functions, exercised, performed and discharged by any such Council or Sabha;"person with disability" means any person who, as a result of any deficiency in his physical or mental capabilities, whether congenital or not, is unable by himself to ensure for himself, wholly or partly, the necessities of life;"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;"Provincial Council" means a Provincial Council established under Chapter XVIIA of the Constitution. |