{"id":1414,"date":"2026-05-17T16:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:26:59","slug":"bill-published-to-repeal-chief-of-defence-staff-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/17\/bill-published-to-repeal-chief-of-defence-staff-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Published to Repeal Chief of Defence Staff Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill has been published in the Government Gazette to repeal the <strong>Chief of Defence Staff Act<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, prepared under the direction of the President in his capacity as Minister of Defence, was officially published in the Government Gazette on Friday (15).<\/p>\n<p>It has been drafted to repeal the <strong>Chief of Defence Staff Act No. 35 of 2009<\/strong>, and to make provisions for related and consequential matters.<\/p>\n<p>Titled the <strong>\u201cChief of Defence Staff (Repeal) Act, 2026\u201d<\/strong>, the proposed legislation will abolish the post of Chief of Defence Staff once enacted.<\/p>\n<p>According to the bill, from the date of implementation, the position of Chief of Defence Staff will cease to exist, and the officer holding the post will be reassigned back to their respective service branch within the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>It further states that, upon the law coming into effect, all movable and immovable assets belonging to the Office of the Chief of Defence Staff will be transferred to the Ministry responsible for defence affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill has been published in the Government Gazette to repeal the Chief of Defence Staff Act. The bill, prepared under the direction of the President in his capacity as Minister of Defence, was officially published in the Government Gazette on Friday (15). It has been drafted to repeal the Chief of Defence Staff Act &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}