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AN ACT to establish Administrative Districts as the areas of authority of government agents, to effect and to provide for the effecting of consequential amendments in other written law, and to provide for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[Date of Commencement: 14th April, 1955]

1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Administrative Districts Act. 2. Eestablishment of Administrative Districts. (1) The Administrative Districts specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby established. (2) The limits of each Administrative District specified in column I of the Schedule to this Act shall, subject to any alterations made therein under section 3, be those specified in the corresponding entry in column II of that Schedule. 3. Abolition, creation and alteration of the limits of Administrative Districts, and amendment of the Schedule. An Administrative District may be abolished, a new Administrative District may be established, the limits of an Administrative District may be altered, and the Schedule to this Act may be amendd or replaced with a new Schedule, by a resolution passed by Parliament. 4. Assignment of each Administrative District to a Government Agent. Each Administrative District shall be assigned to a Government Agent as his area of authority instead of a province. 5. Appointment of Additional Assistant, and Additional Assistant Government Agents. Any number of Additional Government Agents, Assistant Government Agents and Additional Assistant Government Agents may be appointed for an Administrative District. 6. Provinces not to be affected by this Act. This Act shall not be deemed to prevent the continuance of the provinces of Sri Lanka as now constituted or as may hereafter be constituted, for any purpose other than that for which Administrative Districts are established by this Act. 7. Construction of written law. (1) In any written law, unlessssss the context otherwise requires, the expression “Administrative District” shall mean an Administrative District established by or under this Act. (2) Every reference in any other written law to a revenue district shall, after the commencement of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Administrative District consisting of the area which constituted that revenue district. (3) Where any other written law enables or requires the Government Agent of a province to exercise or perform any power, duty or function, such law shall, after the commencement of this Act, be construed as enabling or requiring the Government Agent of each Administrative District in that province to exercise or perform that power, duty or function within the limits of that Administrative District. (4) Where any other written law confers on the Government Agent of a province the power to make any by law, regulation, rule, order, notification or notice, such law shall, after the commencement of this Act, be construed as conferring power on the Government Agent