By Kushan Subasinghe

English and Tamil translations of the draft Bill of the 19th Amendment passed in Parliament last month and forwarded to the Department of the Legal Draftsman for finalising had not yet been returned, Parliament sources said yesterday.

Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa was to sign the Bill into law yesterday.

Once the translations were received they would be forwarded to the Speaker’s office and most probably it would be done within the next couple of days, sources said.

They said Parliament had received the Sinhala copy of the draft returned by the Legal Draftsman’s Department on Monday (11).

The amendments to the draft Bill numbered more than 100 and there had been several public holidays intervening, sources said.

Courtesy:The Island