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| (1) Subject to the powers and responsibilities by law committed to any other authority, the Pradeshiya Sabha mall be the general administrative authority for the purpose of promoting and securing the public health within it limits and shall for that purpose be entitled to exercise 11 such powers as are vested in it by this Act, the Nuisances Ordinance, the Housing and Town Improvement Ordinance, and any other written law for the time being in force in that behalf |
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| (2) The Pradeshiya Sabha shall, in the exercise, discharge and performance of the powers, duties and function vested in, assigned to or imposed on the Pradeshiya Sabha by or under this Act in matters relating to public health, ad in consultation with the Medical Officer of Health within its limits, It shall be the duty of the Medical Officer of Health to advise the Pradeshiya Sabha in as such matters and to supervise and direct the carrying out in that area of measures relating to public health. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts