Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has endorsed the certificate on the Online Safety Bill. Accordingly, the new law will come into effect from today (1), Parliament's Department of Communications stated.
The law will come into effect as the Online Safety Act No. 9 of 2024.
The draft Online Safety Bill was passed with amendments after a two-day Parliamentary debate held on January 23 and 24.
Speaker Abeywardena also endorsed the certificate on the National Hydrographic Bill, which was debated and passed with amendments on January 9 as well as the Contempt of a Court, Tribunal or Institution Bill, which was passed on January 10 with amendments.
These will now come into effect as the National Hydrographic Act No. 7 of 2024 and the Contempt of a Court, Tribunal or Institution Act No. 8 of 2024.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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