Amendment of Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund Act No. 66 of 1981 and Re-name as Lalith Athulathmudali Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund
The Scholarship since its inception was called Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund. It was decided to name the fund after its founder Lalith Athulathmudali.
Accordingly, on, the Cabinet of Ministers approved above Cabinet memorandum to amend the Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund name and section 15 of the act as follows.
- To re-name of the Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund to “Lalith Atulathmudali Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund ”
- Amend section 15 of the Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund Act No. 66 of 1981 to include an additional provision in the said Lalith Athulathmudali Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund Act No.66 of 1981 “That all officers and servants of the Fund including the Trustees shall be deemed to be Public Servants within the meaning and for the proposes of the penal code and shall be subject to the provision of the offenses against the Public Property Act No.12 of 1982.”