Auditor General of Sri Lanka

The Auditor General of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා විගණකාධිපති Śrī Laṃkā viganakādhipathi; Tamil: இலங்கை கணக்காய்வாளர் தலைமை) is appointed by the President to aid accountability by conducting independent audits of government operations. These audits provide members of Parliament with objective information to help them examine the government's activities and hold it to account. According to the constitution, the Auditor General is empowered to audit the accounts of all departments of Government, the Offices of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Judicial Service Commission, the Public Service Commission, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, the Secretary-General of Parliament and the Commissioner of Elections, local authorities, public corporations and business or other undertakings vested in the Government under any written law.

Auditor General of Sri Lanka
ශ්‍රී ලංකා විගණකාධිපති
இலங்கை கணக்காய்வாளர் தலைமை
Incumbent
Chulantha Wickramaratne
since 29 April 2019
Auditor-General's Department
Seat306/72 Polduwa road, Battaramulla
NominatorThe President
AppointerThe President
with Constitutional Council advice and consent
FormationJanuary 24, 1799 (1799-01-24)
First holderCecil Smith
(as Accountant and Auditor General)
Websiteauditorgeneral.gov.lk

The Auditor General of Sri Lanka is the head of the Auditor General's Department.[1][2][3]

List of Auditors General

While the title of Auditor General of Sri Lanka was formally adopted on the country's enactment of its 1978 republican constitution, the position or an equivalent to it has existed since 1799 under various titles.[3] The Department in its current form considers itself a continuation of the office established in 1799, and the table below thus lists all officeholders that have held positions equivalent to the position of the current Auditor General.[3]

# Auditor General Took office Left office Appointed by
Accountant and Auditor General
1Cecil Smith24 January 17991799Frederick North
Civil Auditor and Accountant General
2Thomas FrazerSeptember 17991802Frederick North
Accountant General and Civil Auditor
3Robert Boyd29 September 18021806Frederick North
Civil Auditor General
4Samuel Tolfrey1 October 18061809Thomas Maitland
5Richard Plasket14 June 18091811
6Anthony Bertolacci30 January 18111814
7John D'Oyly1 September 18141816Robert Brownrigg
8Edward Tolfrey2 March 18161 December 1817
9John William Carrington1 December 18171823
10Henry Augustus Marshall18231841James Campbell
Auditor General, Accountant General and Controller of Revenue
11Henry Wright1 February 18411847James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie
12Charles Justin MacCarthy28 May 18471851James Emerson Tennent
13William Charles Gibson1 October 18511861George William Anderson
14Richard Theodore Pennefather24 June 18611866Charles Justin MacCarthy
15R. J. Callander3 January 18661870Hercules Robinson
16John Douglas10 March 18701876
17Colville Arthur Durell Barclay16 June 18761877William Henry Gregory
18William Henry Ravenscroft23 May 18771890
19George Thomas Michael O'Brien18 October 18901891Arthur Havelock
20James Alexander Swettenham31 July 18911895
21Sir William Thomas Taylor10 June 18951901
22Francis Robert Ellis1 March 19021907Joseph West Ridgeway
Colonial Auditor
23Bernard Senior1 March 19071909Henry Arthur Blake
24D. S. MacGregor8 April 19091914Henry Edward McCallum
25Wilfred Wentworth Woods27 May 19141922Robert Chalmers
26F. G. Morley1 March 19221931William Manning
27Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke25 June 19311946Graeme Thomson
Auditor General
28E. Allen Smith16 February 19461953Henry Monck-Mason Moore
29Lionel Arthur Weerasinghe2 March 19531963Herwald Ramsbotham
30D. S. De Silva14 September 19631964William Gopallawa
31B. L. W. Fernando21 February 19641969
32D. R. Settinayake15 August 19691971
33P. M. W. Wijayasuriya11 October 19711983
34W. Gamini Epa2 May 19831993J. R. Jayewardene
35S. M. Sabry26 January 19932000Ranasinghe Premadasa
36Sarath Chandrasiri Mayadunne13 August 20002006Chandrika Kumaratunga
37P. A. Pematilaka23 October 20062007Mahinda Rajapaksa
38S. Swarnajothi3 January 2007August 2010
39H. A. S. Samaraweera20102015
40Gamini Wijesinghe27 November 2015April 2019Maithripala Sirisena
41Chulantha Wickramaratne29 April 2019Present

References
  1. "The Auditor General's Role and Responsibilities". auditorgeneral.gov.lk. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
  2. "Former Auditor Generals". auditorgeneral.gov.lk. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
  3. "History of the Auditor General's Department" (PDF). auditorgeneral.gov.lk. Auditor General's Department. Retrieved 3 November 2017.

See also


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