4. Section 4 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the insertion immediately after paragraph (a) of that section of the following paragraphs :
| " (aa) to provide facilities for and instruction in academic studies in such subjects as would be relevant to officer cadet and officer training; |
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| (ab) to provide a basic service training to pre-officer cadets; |
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| (ac) to provide for courses of study, and instruction, in branches of learning relating to defence and military management; |
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| (ad) to admit officer-cadets and officers to follow such courses of study and instruction ; |
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| (ae) to hold examinations for the purposes of ascertaining the officer-cadets and officers who have acquired proficiency in such branches of learning ; |
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| (af) to admit public officers to follow courses of study relating to defence and military management and to hold examinations for the purposes of ascertaining the officers who have acquired proficiency in such studies ; |
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| (ag) to grant and confer, notwithstanding anything in section 128 of the Universities Act, No. 16 of 1978, degrees, diplomas, certificates on officer cadets and officers and public officers who have followed courses of study in such branches of learning at the Academy and passed such examinations; |
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| (ah) to confer honorary degrees and other academic distinctions on persons recommended by the Board of Management; |
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| (ai) to erect, equip and maintain for the purposes of the Academy, libraries, laboratories and other buildings; |
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| (aj) to institute Professorships, Lecturerships and other posts as may be required for the purposes of the Academy. " |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts