This falls under the category of Civil law. Laws relating to the individual within family relationships are governed by a number of Acts and Ordinances. The legal position and rights relating to Birth, Marriage, Maintenance, Legitimacy, Death etc…come under the broad area of family law. Sri Lanka is a pluralist country and so many personal la...
A REGULATION FOR GIVING FULL FORCE TO THE ”
TESAWALAMAI” OR THE CUSTOMS OF THE MALABAR INHABITANTS
OF THE PROVINCE OF JAFFNA, AS COLLECTED BY
ORDER OF GOVERNOR SIMONS IN 1706.
AN ORDINANCE TO DEFINE THE LAW RELATING TO MUSLIM
INTESTATE SUCCESSION AND DONATIONS
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE
MATRIMONIAL RIGHTS OF MARRIED PERSONS WITH REGARD
TO PROPERTY AND THE LAW OF INHERITANCE
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE LAW
RELATING TO THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN
AN ORDINANCE TO DECLARE THE LAW APPLICABLE TO THE
ISSUE OF CERTAIN KANDYAN MARRIAGES
AN ACT TO AMEND THE RFFIISTBATRON OF PERSONS ACT, NO.
32 OF 1968.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN
PERSONS WHO ARE IN SRI LANKA, FOR THE ISSUE OF
IDENTITY CARDS TO THE PERSONS SO REGISTERED, AND FOR
PURPOSES CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL
THERETO.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PREVENTION OF ANY ACT OF DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL
THERETO
AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE PAYMENT OF
MATERNITY BENEFITS TO WOMEN WORKERS AND FOR OTHER
MATTERS INCIDENTAL TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF SUCH
WOMEN BEFORE AND AFTER THEIR CONFINEMENT
Maternity Benefits (Amendment) Act No 52 of 1981
AN ACT TO AMEND THE MATERNITY BENEFITS ORDINANCE.
Marriage and Divorce (Muslim)
Muslim Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act, No. 40 of 2006
Muslim Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act, No. 24 of 2013
AN ORDINANCE TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAW
RELATING TO MARRIAGES OTHER THAN THE MARRIAGES OF
MUSLIMS AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTER REGISTRATION
THEREOF.
AN ACT TO AMEND THE MARRIAGE REGISTRATION ORDINANCE
(CHAPTER 112)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE MARRIAGE REGISTRATION ORDINANCE
(CHAPTER 112)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE MARRIAGE REGISTRATION
ORDINANCE
Marriage Registration (Amendment) Act, No.11 of 2001
Marriage Registration (Amendment) Act, No.11 of 2001
AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE LAW RELATING
TO KANDYAN MARRIAGES AND DIVORCES, AND TO MAKE
PROVISION FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR
INCIDENTAL THERETO
Kandyan Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act, No. 39 of 2006
Kandyan Marriage And Divorce (Amendment) Act, No. 23 of 2013
Maintenance Claims (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act, No.54 of 198
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF CHILDREN, ADULT
OFFSPRING, DISABLED OFFSPRING AND SPOUSES UNABLE TO
MAINTAIN THEMSELVES ; TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE OF THE LAW
RELATING TO MAINTENANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE
UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD;
AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL
THERETO.
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE LAW RELATING TO THE
LEGITIMIZATION OF CERTAIN ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.
AN ORDINANCE TO DECLARE AND AMEND THE KANDYAN
LAW IN CERTAIN RESPECTS.
At a Convention held on the Second day of March, in the year of Christ
1815, and the Cingalese year 1736 at the Palace in the city of Kandy,
between Excellency Lieut.General Robert Brownrigg Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over the British settlements and territories in
the Island Ceylon, acting in the name and on behalf of Majesty George the
Third, King, and His Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales, Regent, of
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on; the one part, and the
Adigars, Dessaves, and other principal chiefs of the Kandy an provinces
on behalf of the inhabitants, and in presence of the” Mohottales, Coraals,
Vidaans, and other subordinate; headmen from the several provinces, and
of the people then and there assembled on the other part,3 it is agreed and
established as follows.
AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE LAW RELATING TO
SENTENCES OF WHIPPING
AN ACT TO REPEAL THE CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ORDINANCE
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF DEATHS OF PERSONS
REPORTED MISSING AS A RESULT OF TERRORIST OR SUBVERSIVE
ACTIVITY OR CIVIL COMMOTION AND OF PERSONS WHOSE DEATHS ARE
DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO ANY NATURAL DISASTER OR CALAMITY
AND SUCH ACTIVITY, DISASTER OR CALAMITY RESULTS IN SERIOUS
CONSEQUENCES AT NATIONAL LEVEL; AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED
THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF DEATHS OF
PERSONS REPORTED MISSING ; AND FOR MATTERS
CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO
An Act to provide for the registration of deaths of persons
reported missing as a result of terrorist or subversive
activity or civil commotion and of persons whose death is
directly attributable to any natural disaster or calamity
which has seroius consequences at the national level ;
and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto
As ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF DEATHS OF
PERSONS REPORTED MISSING; AND FOR MATTERS
CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO.
AN ORDINANCE TO MODIFY CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF LAW
RELATING TO THE REGISIRATION OF DEATHS, INQUIRIES INTO
DEATHS AND TO THE BURIAL AND CREMATION OF DEAD
BODIES IN THEIR APPLICATION IN THE CASE OF THE DEATHS
OF PERSONS SUBJECT TO MILITARY LAW OR OF MEMBERS OF
THE ARMED FORCES OF THE ENEMY.
AN ACT TO AMEND THE BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION
ACT (CHAPTER 110
AN ACT TO AMEND THE BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ACT
(CHAPTER 110)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION
ACT
Antiquities (Amendment) Act, No. 24 of 1998
AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE LAW RELATING
TO THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND STILLBIRTHS
AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACE OF MAJORITY ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS THE
LEGAL AGE OF MAJORITY IN SRI LANKA
Adoption of Children (Amendment) Act, No. 15 of 1992
AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN, FOR
THE REGISTRATION AS CUSTODIANS OF PERSONS HAVING THE
CARE, CUSTODY OR CONTROL, OF CHILDREN OF WHOM THEY ARE
NOT THE NATURAL PARENTS, AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED WITH
THE MATTERS AFORESAID.
The Constitution Of The Democratic Socialist Republic Of Sri Lanka of 1978
AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN YEARS THE LEGAL AGE OF MAJORITY IN SRI LANKA
AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACE OF MAJORITY ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN, FOR THE REGISTRATION AS CUSTODIANS OF PERSONS HAVING THE CARE, CUSTODY OR CONTROL, OF CHILDREN OF WHOM THEY ARE NOT THE NATURAL PARENTS, AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID