{"id":79952,"date":"2022-10-20T00:27:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T04:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=79952"},"modified":"2022-10-20T21:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T01:27:12","slug":"supreme-court-determines-that-the-bureau-of-rehabilitation-bill-as-a-whole-is-inconsistent-with-article-1121nof-the-constitution-announces-speaker-mahinda-yapa-abeywardena-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=79952","title":{"rendered":"Supreme  Court  Determines that the  Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill as a whole is inconsistent with Article 112(1)nof the Constitution Announces Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nSpeaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced yesterday in Parliament that the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has determined that the Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill as a whole is inconsistent with Article 112(1)nof the Constitution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said therefore, the Supreme Court has said the Bill may be enacted only by the special majority required by Article 84 (2) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, he said it has been determined that this inconsistency shall cease if:<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n(i) <\/strong>All references to \u201cex-combatants\u201d, \u201cviolent extremist groups\u201d and \u201cany other group of persons\u201d are deleted from the Bill; and <\/p>\n<p>(<strong>ii)<\/strong> The Bill is limited to the rehabilitation of drug-dependent persons and such other persons as may be identified by law<\/p>\n<p>In its determination, the Supreme Court has however said that if appropriate amendments are made, the Bill can be passed.<br \/>\nThe Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill, presented to Parliament on 23 September 2022, had sought compulsory detention in centres of drug-dependent persons, ex-combatants, members of violent extremist groups and any other group of persons. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily FT<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton79952\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D79952&amp;text=Supreme%20%20Court%20%20Determines%20that%20the%20%20Bureau%20of%20Rehabilitation%20Bill%20as%20a%20whole%20is%20inconsistent%20with%20Article...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced yesterday in Parliament that the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has determined that the Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill as a whole is inconsistent with Article 112(1)nof the Constitution He said therefore, the Supreme Court has said the Bill may be enacted only by the special majority required by Article 84 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=79952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Supreme  Court  Determines that the  Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill as a whole is inconsistent with Article 112(1)nof the Constitution Announces Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena in Parliament&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79956,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79952\/revisions\/79956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}