{"id":118642,"date":"2021-09-27T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118642"},"modified":"2021-09-27T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T00:03:30","slug":"implementing-recommendations-of-a-commission-is-prerogative-of-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/27\/implementing-recommendations-of-a-commission-is-prerogative-of-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Implementing Recommendations of a Commission is Prerogative of Govt."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Palitha Mapatuna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The position of certain quarters seems to be that it is\nmandatory upon a government to implement recommendations of a commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This position is not tenable, because it would, then, amount\nto a transfer of powers of an elected government to a commission, which is not\nlegitimately possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision of implementation, or otherwise, regarding any\nof the recommendations of a commission, it seems needless to say, is the\nprerogative of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is not the case, an appointed commission would, in\neffect, be the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palitha Mapatuna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palitha Mapatuna The position of certain quarters seems to be that it is mandatory upon a government to implement recommendations of a commission. This position is not tenable, because it would, then, amount to a transfer of powers of an elected government to a commission, which is not legitimately possible. The decision of implementation, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}