දූෂණ විරෝධී (සංශෝධන) පනත් කෙටුම්පතට කථානායකවරයාගේ සහතිකය

Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne endorsed the certificate on the Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Bill on October 19, according to Newswire and the Parliament Communications Department, as reported by the Daily Mirror. The legislation is now the Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Act, No. 25 of 2026.

Newswire reports that Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya presented the Bill for its First Reading on August 19, 2026. Parliament held the Second Reading debate on October 8, after which MPs passed it with amendments and without a division.

The amendments are intended to address legal, interpretative, administrative and technical problems identified in applying the Anti-Corruption Act, No. 9 of 2023. Parliament says they also resolve differences between the Act’s Sinhala and English versions and respond to difficulties involving corruption investigations and prosecutions.

The changes further seek to improve the work of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and move assets-and-liabilities declarations to a centralized electronic system. Parliament says the measures are intended to strengthen the country’s anti-corruption framework and support transparency, accountability and implementation.

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