DIEU
37
CEYLON GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY
No. 9,554-FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1946.
Published by Authority.
PART I-GENERAL.
GOVERNMENT
NOTIFICATIONS.
THE Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council, 1946, is hereby published as required by subsection (1) of Section 2 thereof.
Colombo, May 17, 1946.
By His Excellency's command,
C. H. HART WELL,
Acting Secretary to the Governor
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the Fifteenth day of May, 1946.
Present:
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by the Orders in Council set out in the First Schedule to this Order provision is made for the constitution of a State Council for the Island of Ceylon :
AND WHEREAS in the years 1944 and 1945 a Commission was appointed by His Majesty's Government under the chairman- ship of the Right Honourable Herwald, Baron Soulbury, O.B.E., M.C., to visit the Island of Ceylon in order to examine and discuss proposals for constitutional reform, and the said Commission duly visited the Island and made a report to His Majesty's Govern-
ment :
AND WHEREAS a Statement of Policy on Constitutional Reform in Ceylon was presented to Parliament by His Majesty's Government in the month of October, 1945 :
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