Today I heard about a grand wedding of an Indian tycoon (Ambani's son) from a friend of mine, and he showed me some videos of it too. He said famous and powerful people from around the world have been invited to it, and the cost of the event was going to be several Billions (of Indian Rupees or USD, I don't know). If you think about it, India is a country with a higher population of substandard living conditions. There are innocent and miserable children who are forced to work for a mere subsistence, being deprived of education, health facilities, and food and water. I remember a movie based on a true story in which Akshey Kumar was playing the leading role where he makes sanitary towels (pads) for poor women who could not afford it. In such a country, a single wedding event spends billions of money. What a crappy world we are living! You could imagine how much wealth this family has amassed. On the other, this "mental disease" of exorbitant spending must be highly we
CHAPTER XXXIX
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
316.
Unless
Parliament otherwise provides, the Republic of Sri Lanka shall continue to
possess, exercise, perform, and discharge all powers, privileges, immunities, rights,
liabilities, and responsibilities whatsoever possessed, exercised, performed,
and discharged or exercisable prior to the commencement of the Constitution.
317.
(1) Unless Parliament otherwise provides, all laws,
written laws and unwritten laws, in force immediately before the commencement
of the Constitution, shall, mutatis mutandis, and except as otherwise
expressly provided in the Constitution, continue in force.
(2) Save as otherwise provided in the Constitution, existing laws, written laws
and unwritten laws are not and shall not in any manner be deemed to be
provisions of the Constitution.
(3) Wherever the Constitution provides that any law, written law or unwritten
law or any provision of the Constitution shall continue in force until or
unless Parliament otherwise provides, any law enacted by Parliament so
providing may be passed by a majority of the Member present and voting.
(4) Whenever the Constitution provides that any provision of any existing written
law shall continue in force until or unless Parliament otherwise provides and
the existing written law referred to consists of subordinate legislation, the
provision that such existing written law shall continue in force until or
unless Parliament otherwise provides shall not in any manner be deemed to
derogate from the power of the person or body on whom the power to make and
when made, to amend, vary, rescind or revoke such subordinate legislation is
conferred, to exercise the power so conferred until or unless Parliament
otherwise provides.
(5) Unless the Constitution otherwise provides or the two thirds majority of
the Members of Parliament including Members not present otherwise decide, the
past operation of any law in force prior to the commencement of the
Constitution or anything duly done or suffered or any offence committed or any
right, liberty, obligation or penalty acquired or incurred under any law in
force prior to the commencement of the Constitution shall not in any manner be
affected or be deemed to be affected by the Constitution coming into force.
(6) All actions, prosecutions, proceedings, matters or things, including
proceedings of Commissions appointed or established by or under any existing
written law, pending or uncompleted on the commencement of the Constitution
shall, subject to the provisions of the Constitution and mutatis mutandis,
be deemed to continue and may be carried on and completed after the
commencement of the Constitution.
318.
The President immediately before the commencement
of this Constitution shall be the first President under this Constitution and
shall be deemed for all purposes, the President until the State Assembly elects
a new President as per the provisions of Article 51.
319.
A General Election shall be conducted by
Elections Commission in accordance with the provisions of Chapter XIII, within twelve
months of the commencement of this Constitution.
320.
The first Parliament after the commencement of
this Constitution shall stay dissolved until new Members of Parliament shall be
elected by a General Election.
321.
All local governments in the name of Pradeshiya
Sabha, Urban Council, and Municipal Council shall be abrogated; and Pradeshiya
Sabhaas Act, Urban Councils Ordinance, Municipal Council Ordinance, with every
amendment to such acts and ordinances shall be repealed hereby. Local Council
shall supersede every existed local government.
322.
(1) All the Judges of the Supreme Court and the
Court of Appeal, before the commencement of this Constitution, shall remain the
same in Supreme Court and Court of Appeal after the commencement of this
Constitution;
(2) The Judges and Commissioners of the High Courts, before the commencement of
this Constitution, shall become the Judges of High Courts after the
commencement of this Constitution;
(3) The Judges of the District Courts, before the commencement of this
Constitution, shall become the Judges of Provincial Courts, after the
commencement of this Constitution; and the duties, proceedings instigated in
District Courts shall be removed to Provincial Courts established by this
Constitution;
(4) Judges of Magistrate courts and primary courts or tribunals, before the
commencement of this Constitution, shall be the Judges of Magistrate court and
Primary courts or such tribunals, after the commencement of this Constitution;
(5) All the proceedings in relation to Fundamental Rights in the Supreme Court,
prior to the commencement of this Constitution, shall be removed to Court of
Appeal;
(6) if any matter or question shall arise with regard to any procedure or
practice to be followed in any court in consequence of the coming into
operation of the Constitution, not provided for in the Constitution or any
written law, Chief Justice shall have the power to give such directions as he
may consider necessary to prevent injustice or as the justice of the case may require,
subject to the provisions of this Constitution.
323.
All persons who were in the public service,
before the commencement of this Constitution, shall be the same in the public service
after the commencement of this Constitution.