{"id":97177,"date":"2020-01-01T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T00:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97177"},"modified":"2020-01-01T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T00:09:30","slug":"21a-22a-draft-bills-gazetted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/01\/21a-22a-draft-bills-gazetted\/","title":{"rendered":"21A, 22A Draft Bills gazetted"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adaderanaenglish.s3.amazonaws.com\/1577911943-21A-22A-Draft-Bills-gazetted-B.jpg\" alt=\"21A, 22A Draft Bills gazetted\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 21st Amendment Draft Bill and the 22nd Amendment Draft Bill have been gazetted by Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 21st Amendment Draft proposes to change certain provisions of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution while the 22nd Amendment Draft proposes to abolish the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two draft Bills have been presented to the parliament by MP Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe as a Private Member\u2019s Bill.21st Amendment to the Constitution: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-scribd wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-scribd wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Twenty First Amendment to the Constitution\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/441431688\/content\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7068965517241379\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"441431688\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">          (function() { var scribd = document.createElement(\"script\"); scribd.type = \"text\/javascript\"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = \"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/javascripts\/embed_code\/inject.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })()        <\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-scribd wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-scribd wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Twenty Second Amendment to the Constitution\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/441431883\/content\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7068965517241379\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"441431883\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">          (function() { var scribd = document.createElement(\"script\"); scribd.type = \"text\/javascript\"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = \"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/javascripts\/embed_code\/inject.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })()        <\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana The 21st Amendment Draft Bill and the 22nd Amendment Draft Bill have been gazetted by Parliament. The 21st Amendment Draft proposes to change certain provisions of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution while the 22nd Amendment Draft proposes to abolish the 15th Amendment to the Constitution. The two draft Bills have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-constitution","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97177","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=97177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}