8. Subject to the provisions of this Law, the objects of the Council shall be-
| (1) to ensure the freedom of the press in Sri Lanka, to prevent abuses of that freedom, and to safeguard the character of the Sri Lanka press in accordance with the highest professional standards; |
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| (2) to ensure that newspapers shall be free to publish as news true statements of facts, and any comments based upon true statements of facts; |
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| (3) to ensure on the part of newspapers and journalists the maintenance of high standards of journalistic ethics, and to foster a due sense of both the rights and responsibilities of citizenship; |
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| (4) to improve methods of recruitment, education, welfare and training in the profession of journalism; |
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| (5) to promote a proper functional relation among all sections engaged in the production or publication of newspapers, and the establishment of common services for the supply and dissemination of news as may from time to time appear to be desirable; |
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| (6) to undertake research into the use and needs of the press, to keep under review developments likely to restrict the supply of information of public interest and importance and developments in the Sri Lanka press which may tend towards concentration or monopoly, and to suggest appropriate remedial measures in relation thereto; |
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| (7) to advise the Government on any matter pertaining to the regulation and conduct of newspapers. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts