{"id":126362,"date":"2022-06-21T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126362"},"modified":"2022-06-21T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:26:00","slug":"speaker-conveys-supreme-courts-determination-on-constitutional-amendments-proposed-by-sjb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/21\/speaker-conveys-supreme-courts-determination-on-constitutional-amendments-proposed-by-sjb\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker conveys  Supreme Court&#8217;s determination on constitutional amendments proposed by SJB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Court has determined that some clauses in amendments proposed by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) for the 21st Amendment to the Constitution require a referendum and need to be passed in the parliament with a special majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena today (June 21) conveyed the Supreme Court\u2019s determination on the petition against the constitutional amendments proposed by the SJB, during the parliamentary session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/579162569\/SC-s-Determination-on-Constitutional-Amendments-Proposed-by-SJB#from_embed\">SC\u2019s Determination on Constitutional Amendments Proposed by SJB<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/91626333\/Ada-Derana#from_embed\">Ada Derana<\/a>\u00a0on Scribdhttps:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/579162569\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-XXtD1vXF85ujiU2BWZ56<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has determined that some clauses in amendments proposed by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) for the 21st Amendment to the Constitution require a referendum and need to be passed in the parliament with a special majority. Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena today (June 21) conveyed the Supreme Court\u2019s determination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126362","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=126362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}