President of the Senate of Ceylon

President of the Senate of Ceylon

Inaugural holder	Gerard Wijeyekoon
Formation	1947
Final holder	Abeyratne Ratnayaka
Abolished	2 October 1971
Deputy	Deputy President of the Senate of Ceylon

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The President of the Senate of Ceylon, was the presiding officer and the highest ranking-official of the Senate of Ceylon.

List of Senate Presidents

The Senate was created on 1947 with the abolition of the Soulbury Commission as the upper house with the House of Representatives of Ceylon as the lower house.

#	Senate President	Took office	Left office	Deputy President
1	Gerard Wijeyekoon	1947	1953	Peri Sundaram
2	Nicholas Attygalle	1953	1960
3	Cyril de Zoysa	1960	1963
4	Sarath Wijesinghe	1962	1965
5	Thomas Amarasuriya	1963	1965	D. A. Rajapahse
6	Abeyratne Ratnayaka	1965	1971	S. D. S. Somaratne

Presidents of the Senate of Ceylon

Gerard Wijeyekoon Nicholas Attygalle Cyril de Zoysa Sarath Wijesinghe Thomas Amarasuriya Abeyratne Ratnayaka

Members

Current members	By length of service Youngest members Longest-serving members ever

Women and minority members	Sri Lankan Tamil members Sri Lankan Moor members Other minority members Lady members

Leaders

Parliament Secretariat

Secretariat leaders	Secretaries-General (list) Deputy Secretary General (list) Assistant Secretary General (list)

Departments	Serjeant-at-Arms Administration Legislative Services Finance and Supplies Hansard Co-ordinating Engineer Catering and Housekeeping Information Systems and Management

Powers,
procedure
and customs

Powers	Legislative Power of the Sri Lankan Parliament

Committees	Selection House Standing Orders Parliamentary Business Public Accounts Public Enterprises Privileges Public Petitions

Items	Mace Chair Bar

History

Building of Parliament

Miscellaneous

Legislatures of modern Sri Lanka

Website: Parliament of Sri Lanka

British Ceylon	Legislative Council of Ceylon (1833 - 1931) State Council of Ceylon (1931 - 1947)

Dominion of Ceylon	Parliament of Ceylon (1947 - 1972)¹

Sri Lanka	National State Assembly (1972 - 1978) Parliament of Sri Lanka (1978 - Present)

See also	Colebrooke-Cameron Commission (1829) Donoughmore Commission (Donoughmore Constitution) (1931 - 1947) Soulbury Commission (1944) Republic Constitution

¹ Composed of the Senate and House of Representatives

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