Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsEmergency Relief
| 24. The Commissioner may, if he is of opinion that a natural or human made disaster has taken place and that emergency relief of a temporary nature should be made available to those persons affected by the same, extend with the prior approval of the Board the welfare benefit payments made under this Act to such persons such persons shall temporarily become persons who are eligible to receive welfare benefit payments in terms of the Act : Provided that the emergency relief extended in terms of this section shall not in any event extend beyond a period of one year. |