Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Welfare Benefits Act (No. 24 of 2002)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.	   Short title and date of operation  
   2.	   Appointment of officers  
   3.	   Establishment of Welfare Benefits Board  
   4.	   Composition of the Board  
   5.	   Term of office &c. of the Board  
   6.	   Powers of the Board  
   7.	   Selection of persons eligible to receive welfare benefit payments  
   8.	   Delegation of powers of the Board  
   9.	   Welfare Benefit payment Scheme  
   10.	   Selection Committees  
   11.	   objections  
   12.	   Appeals Committees  
   13.	   Additional information  
   14.	   Tendering false information an offence  
   15.	   Duties of Divisional Secretaries  
   16.	   Procedure on default  
   17.	   Board to maintain and operate bank accounts &c  
   18.	   Accounts of the Board  
   19.	   Expenses of the Board  
   20.	   Offences  
   21.	   Offences by public officers  
   22.	   Recovery in case of incorrect payments  
   23.	   Omission and addition of names to the list of persons eligible to receive welfare benefit payments  
   24.	   Emergency Relief  
   25.	   Minister to issue directions  
   26.	   Finality of decisions of the Board  
   27.	   Regulations  
   28.	   Interpretation  
   29.	   In case of inconsistency this Act to prevail  
   30.	   Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency