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Acts & Ordinances NATIONAL HYDROGRAPHIC ACT Marginal Notes 1. Short title and date of operation 2. Establishment of the National Hydrographic Office 3. Objects of the Office 4. Powers, duties and functions of the Office 5. Administration and management of the Office vested in the Council 6. Constitution of the Council 7. Chairperson of the Council 8. Disqualifications from being a member of the Council 9. Term of office 10. Resignation and removal 11. Quorum and meetings of the Council 12. Acts or proceedings of the Council deemed not to be invalid by reason of any vacancy 13. Remuneration of the members of the Council 14. Seal, logo and flag of the Office 15. Appointment of the National Hydrographer of the Office 16. Staff of the Office 17. Hydrographic Surveyors or Nautical Cartographers to register under this Act 18. Application for registration as a Hydrographic Surveyor or a Nautical Cartographer 19. Duration of a registration 20. Renewal of Certificate of Registration 21. Refusal to register or renew a Cerificate of Registration 22. Use of abbreviated designations 23. Cancellation or suspension of a registration 24. Appeals 25. Appeals Board 26. Inquiry by Complaints Resolution Committee 27. Fund of the Office 28. Financial year and audit of accounts 29. Delegation of the powers of the Council 30. Protection for action taken under this Act 31. Duty to maintain Secrecy 32. Database 33. Duplicates 34. Authenticity of nautical charts & etc. 35. Interference with survey marks 36. Power to access any place 37. Vessels of the hydrographic servey fleet 38. Registers to be kept by the Office 39. State property both movable and immovable be made available to the Office 40. Penalties for cotraventions for which no spesific provisions have been made 41. Provision regarding prosecution 42. Office deemed to be a Scheduled Institution within the meaning of the Anti-Corruption Act 43. Members, National Hydrographer, officers and employees of the Office deemed to be public servants 44. Directions of the Minister 45. Provisions of this Act to prevail over other written law 46. Regulations 47. Rules 48. Interpretation 49. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency