{"id":61751,"date":"2016-12-23T05:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T12:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=61751"},"modified":"2016-12-23T05:47:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T12:47:05","slug":"uva-pc-defeats-development-special-provisions-draft-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/12\/23\/uva-pc-defeats-development-special-provisions-draft-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Uva PC defeats Development (Special Provisions) draft bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"newsDateStamp\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy\u00a0Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">December 23, 2016\u00a0\u00a007:38 am<\/p>\n<div class=\"bookmarkIcon\"><span class=\"st_linkedin\"><span class=\"stButton\"><span class=\"chicklets linkedin\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>The Development (Special Provisions) draft bill was defeated by the Uva Provincial Council with a majority of four votes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>Thirteen provincial councillors had voted against the bill while only 9 voted in favour, Ada Derana reporter said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was submitted by Uva Governor M. P. Jayasinghe for approval and taken up at a council session chaired by A. M. Buddhadasa yesterday (22).<\/p>\n<p>All SLFP members except Chief Minister Chamara Sampath, who abstained, voted against the Bill, which all UNP members voted for.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama announced this week that the Development (Special Provision) Bill will be presented in Parliament in February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He denied that this bill would pave the way for a \u2018Super Minister\u2019 as accused by several opposition parties and added that, through this bill, it will facilitate the investors coming here to easily get their work done through a one-stop shop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/38345\/uva-pc-defeats-development-special-provisions-draft-bill#sthash.uHe6Pt4i.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yusuf Ariff\u00a0Courtesy\u00a0Adaderana December 23, 2016\u00a0\u00a007:38 am \u00a0The Development (Special Provisions) draft bill was defeated by the Uva Provincial Council with a majority of four votes. Thirteen provincial councillors had voted against the bill while only 9 voted in favour, Ada Derana reporter said. The bill was submitted by Uva Governor M. P. Jayasinghe for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61751","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=61751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}