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The Accounts Division of the Ministry carries out financial control activities subject to the Ministry expenditure head 110 of and expenditure head 228 and supervises the financial activities of the Departments and Statutory Bodies coming within the purview of the Ministry.
In carrying out such activities,
1. Implementing an efficient and effective financial management system and providing relevant advice and guidance.
2. Ensuring the protection of the assets of the institution.
3. Managing finances in accordance with Financial Regulations and Circulars.
4. Controlling expenditure within the approved budgetary provisions.
5. Accounting and reporting of all financial information’
6. Preparing and providing the necessary information and reports for the Public Accounts Committees of Parliament, providing the necessary information to the Auditor General and the Internal Audit Divisions and strengthening and improving the transparent financial control system.
4 main Divisions within the Accounting Division take the charge to fulfill this overall role and the main functions of each of those Divisions as follows.
- Payment Division
- Courts Administration Division
- Accounts Division
- Procurement Division
The Ministry was established as the Ministry of Justice, Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils, Local Government and Labour under the Extraordinary Gazette No. 2403/53 dated 27 September 2024. It was subsequently reconstituted as the Ministry of Justice and National Integration by the Extraordinary Gazette No. 2412/08 dated 25 November 2024.
Accordingly, the following departments and institutions function under the purview of this Ministry. The Establishment Division is responsible for coordinating all institutional and administrative activities relating to these organisations.
- Attorney General’s Department
- Legal Draftsman’s Department
- Judicial Service Commission
- Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
- Government Analyst’s Department
- Department of Prisons
- Department of Community-Based Corrections
- Department of Official Languages
- Mediation Boards Commission
- Law Commission of Sri Lanka
- Office of the Secretary to the Labour Tribunals
- Sri Lanka Judges’ Institute
- Legal Aid Commission of Sri Lanka
- National Authority for the Protection of Victims of Crimes and Witnesses
- Office of the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation
- Office for Reparations
- Office on Missing Persons
- Office for National Unity and Reconciliation
- Supreme Court Complex Management Board
- Official Languages Commission
- National Institute of Language Education and Training (NILET)
- Office for the National Coexistence and Reconciliation Commission
- Council of Legal Education
Functions of the Division
The Establishment Division is responsible for handling all institutional and administrative affairs of the Ministry, coordinating the activities of the institutions and departments under its purview, managing human resource matters relating to non-judicial positions in courts, and providing necessary administrative and institutional support to the courts.
The National Integration Division implements programs aimed at establishing inter-ethnic cooperation and coexistence, while ensuring the protection of the heritage, identities, and cultures of all ethnic and community groups living within Sri Lankan society. This is achieved by introducing and implementing necessary programs and by providing opportunities to foster mutual understanding of cultural, social, and religious backgrounds among different communities.
These programs are implemented through Development Officers (National Integration), National Integration Coordinators, and National Integration Promotion Assistants assigned to Divisional Secretariats throughout the country.
The Division also coordinates and supervises the functions of the following three institutions:
- Office for Reparations (OR)
- Office on Missing Persons (OMP)
- Office for National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR)
Functions of the National Integration Division
i. Planning programs across the country to promote national integration and providing proper supervision and guidance for their implementation.
ii. Coordinating and supervising the duties of Development Officers (National Integration), National Integration Coordinators and National Integration Promotion Assistants at divisional and district levels.
iii. Coordinating activities with the Office for Reparations (OR), Office on Missing Persons (OMP), and Office for National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR).
iv. Establishing, restructuring, and strengthening coexistence societies.
v. Coordinating and supervising foreign-funded projects aimed at promoting national Integration.
Overview of the initiatives undertaken by the Development Division.
- Identification, clearing, transfer, and acquisition of land as necessary for courts and judicial residences
- Procedures for obtaining suitable buildings on a rental basis for courts and judicial residences where construction is not feasible
- Coordination procedures for identifying and acquiring or leasing required land and buildings for institutions under this Ministry
- Procedures for valuation and accounting of land and buildings that have been transferred or acquired to the Ministry of Justice
- Payment of property taxes on Ministry properties, payment of electricity and water bills for official residences, and issues related to water and electricity bills for courts
- Coordination of procedures for providing space facilities in court premises/lands to other institutions
