Vision, Mission and Functions of the Legal Draftsman's Department

The vision of the Legal Draftsman's Department which performs a very vital function in the governments machinery, is to efficiently assist the government in achieving its legislative programme by the transformation of its policies into law in order to ensure good governance.

The mission of the Legal Draftsman's Department is to draft legislation in keeping with the Constitutional requirements in three languages. i.e. Sinhala, Tamil and English.

The function of the Legal Draftsman is essentially the drafting of new legislation and amending legislation in all three languages, the preparation of statements of objects and reasons for such legislation, the revision of all Proclamations, Notifications, Orders-in-Council, By-Laws, Rules and Regulations forwarded by the initiating Ministry or relevant authority, attending Parliment and meetings of the Select Committees of Parliment when bills are being discussed and bringing out the pre-1972 laws in official languages.

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