Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Tsunami (Special Provisions) Act (No. 16 of 2005)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.	   Short title  
   2.	   Where persons resident in certain area as at December 26, 2004, are found missing  
   3.	   Procedure for obtaining a certificate of death in respect of a person referred to in section 2  
   4.	   Where
information is received of a person being alive in respect of whom a certificate of death was issued under section 3  
   5.	   offences  
   6.	   Interpretation  
   7.	   Application of the Provisions the Act  
   8.	   Authority to maintain a register  
   9.	   Registration as current custodian  
   10.	   Duty of a current  custodian,  
   11.	   Informing Authority of desire for foster care  
   12.	   Authority to be the Guardian  
   13.	   Application to be a  foster parent  
   14.	   Authority to refer application to a Foster Care Evaluation Panel  
   15.	   Panel to forward its recommendations,  
   16.	   Foster Care  
   17.	   Duty of a Foster  
   18.	   Duties of the Monitoring Officer in regard to the child or young person in respect of whom a Foster Care Order is made  
   19.	   Monitoring Officer to have right to enter any premises etc  
   20.	   Revocation of Foster Care Order  
   21.	   No adoption under Adoption of Children Ordinance unless child is under foster care  
   22.	   Application for adoption of a foster care  
   23.	   Provisions of sections 3 and 4 of the Adoption of Children Ordinance to apply  
   24.	   Issue of birth certificate  
   25.	   Provisions of Adoption of Children Ordinance to apply mutatis mutandis  
   26.	   Authority to act notwithstanding the National Child Protection Authority Act, No. 50 of 1998  
   27.	   Interpretation  
   28.	   Adverse possession not considered to be interrupted  
   29.	   Exclusion of certain period from the calculation of lime prescribed for the filing of certain actions etc  
   30.	   Possession of land affected by the Tsunami  
   31.	   Tenant or lessees rights not to be terminated  
   32.	   Penally for certain offences under the Penal Code committed in relation to Tsunami relief property  
   33.	   Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency