Auditor General of Sri Lanka
| Auditor General of Sri Lanka | |
|---|---|
since 3 January 2007 | |
| Auditor-General's Department | |
| Appointer | President of Sri Lanka |
| Inaugural holder | Cecil Smith as Accountant and Auditor General |
| Formation | 24 January 1799 |
| Website | Auditor General |
The role of the Auditor General of Sri Lanka is to aid accountability by conducting independent audits of government operations. The Auditor General is appointed by the President. These audits provide members of Parliament with objective information to help them examine the government's activities and hold it to account. According to the constitution the Auditor-General shall audit the accounts of all departments of Government, the Offices of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Judicial Service Commission, the Public Service Commission, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, the Secretary-General of Parliament and the Commissioner of Elections, local authorities, public corporations and business or other undertakings vested in the Government under any written law. The Auditor General of Sri Lanka is the head of Auditor-General's Department of Sri Lanka.[1][2]
List of Auditors General
| Name | Term | Head of state | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accountant and Auditor General | |||
| 1 | Cecil Smith | 24 January 1799 - September 1799 | Frederick North |
| Civil Auditor and Accountant General | |||
| 2 | Thomas Frazer | September 1799 - 29 September 1802 | Frederick North |
| Accountant General and Civil Auditor | |||
| 3 | Robert Boyd | 29 September 1802 - 1 October 1806 | Frederick North |
| Civil Auditor General | |||
| 4 | Samuel Tolfrey | 1 October 1806 - 14 June 1809 | Thomas Maitland |
| 5 | R. Plaske | 14 June 1809 - 30 January 1811 | |
| 6 | A. Bertolacci | 30 January 1811 - 1 September 1814 | |
| 7 | John D'Oyly | 1 September 1814 - 1815 | Robert Brownrigg |
| 8 | E. Tolfrey | 1815 - 1 December 1817 | |
| 9 | J. W. Carrington | 1 December 1817 - 1823 | |
| 10 | Henry Augustus Marshall | 1823 - 1 February 1841 | James Campbell |
| Auditor General, Accountant General and Controller of Revenue | |||
| 11 | H. Wright | 1 February 1841 - 28 May 1847 | James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie |
| 12 | Charles Justin MacCarthy | 28 May 1847 - 1 October 1851 | James Emerson Tennent |
| 13 | W. C. Gibson | 1 October 1851 - 24 June 1861 | George William Anderson |
| 14 | R. T. Pennefeather | 24 June 1861 - 3 January 1866 | Charles Justin MacCarthy |
| 15 | R. J. Callander | 3 January 1866 - 10 March 1870 | Hercules Robinson |
| 16 | John Douglas | 10 March 1870 - 16 June 1876 | |
| 17 | C. A. D. Barclay | 16 June 1876 - 23 May 1877 | William Henry Gregory |
| 18 | W. H. Ravenscroft | 23 May 1877 - 18 October 1890 | |
| 19 | G. T. M. O'Brien | 18 October 1890 - 31 July 1891 | Arthur Havelock |
| 20 | J. A. Swettenham | 31 July 1891 - 10 June 1895 | |
| 21 | J. A. Taylor | 10 June 1895 - 1 March 1902 | |
| 22 | F. R. Ellis | 1 March 1902 - 1 March 1907 | West Ridgeway |
| Colonial Auditor | |||
| 23 | Bernard Senior | 1 March 1907 - 8 April 1909 | Henry Edward McCallum |
| 24 | D. S. MacGregor | 8 April 1909 - 27 May 1914 | |
| 25 | W. W. Woods | 27 May 1914 - 1 March 1922 | Robert Chalmers |
| 26 | F. G. Morley | 1 March 1922 - 25 June 1931 | William Manning |
| 27 | Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke | 25 June 1931 - 16 February 1946 | Graeme Thomson |
| Auditor General | |||
| 28 | E. Allen Smith | 16 February 1946 - 2 March 1953 | Henry Monck-Mason Moore |
| 29 | L. A. Weerasinghe | 2 March 1953 - 14 September 1963 | Dudley Senanayake |
| 30 | D. S. De Silva | 14 September 1963 - 21 February 1964 | Sirimavo Bandaranaike |
| 31 | B. L. W. Fernando | 21 February 1964 - 15 August 1969 | |
| 32 | D. R. Settinayake | 15 August 1969 - 11 October 1971 | Dudley Senanayake |
| 33 | P. M. W. Wijayasuriya | 11 October 1971 - 2 May 1983 | Sirimavo Bandaranaike |
| 34 | W. Gamini Epa | 2 May 1983 - 26 January 1993 | J. R. Jayewardene |
| 35 | S. M. Sabry | 26 January 1993 - 13 August 2000 | Ranasinghe Premadasa |
| 36 | Sarath Chandrasiri Mayadunne | 13 August 2000 - 23 October 2006 | Chandrika Kumaratunga |
| 37 | P. A. Pematilaka | 23 October 2006 - 3 January 2007 | Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| 38 | S. Swarnajothi | 3 January 2007 - | |
See also
References
- ^ "The Auditor General's Role and Responsibilities". auditorgeneral.gov.lk. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
- ^ "Former Auditor Generals". auditorgeneral.gov.lk. Retrieved 13 December 2013.