Auditor General of Sri Lanka

Auditor General of Sri Lanka
විගණකාධිපති දෙපාර්තදේන්තුව
Incumbent
Gamini Wijesinghe
since 27 November 2015
Auditor-General's Department
Nominator The President
Appointer The President
with Constitutional Council advice and consent
Formation 24 January 1799 (1799-01-24)
First holder Cecil Smith
as Accountant and Auditor General
Website Auditor General

The role of the Auditor General of Sri Lanka (Sinhalese: විගණකාධිපති දෙපාර්තදේන්තුව) is to aid accountability by conducting independent audits of government operations. The Auditor General is appointed by the President. 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 shall 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. The Auditor General of Sri Lanka is the head of Auditor-General's Department of Sri Lanka.[1][2][3]

List of Auditors General

# Auditor General Took office Left office Appointed by
Accountant and Auditor General
1 Cecil Smith 24 January 1799 1799 Frederick North
Civil Auditor and Accountant General
2 Thomas Frazer September 1799 1802 Frederick North
Accountant General and Civil Auditor
3 Robert Boyd 29 September 1802 1806 Frederick North
Civil Auditor General
4 Samuel Tolfrey 1 October 1806 1809 Thomas Maitland
5 R. Plasket 14 June 1809 1811
6 Anthony Bertolacci 30 January 1811 1814
7 John D'Oyly 1 September 1814 1815 Robert Brownrigg
8 E. Tolfrey 1815 1817
9 John William Carrington 1 December 1817 1823
10 Henry Augustus Marshall 1823 1841 James Campbell
Auditor General, Accountant General and Controller of Revenue
11 Henry Wright 1 February 1841 1847 James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie
12 Charles Justin MacCarthy 28 May 1847 1851 James Emerson Tennent
13 William Charles Gibson 1 October 1851 1861 George William Anderson
14 Richard Theodore Pennefather 24 June 1861 1866 Charles Justin MacCarthy
15 R. J. Callander 3 January 1866 1870 Hercules Robinson
16 John Douglas 10 March 1870 1876
17 Colville Arthur Durell Barclay 16 June 1876 1877 William Henry Gregory
18 William Henry Ravenscroft 23 May 1877 1890
19 George Thomas Michael O'Brien 18 October 1890 1891 Arthur Havelock
20 James Alexander Swettenham 31 July 1891 1895
21 Sir William Thomas Taylor 10 June 1895 1901
22 Francis Robert Ellis 1 March 1902 1907 Joseph West Ridgeway
Colonial Auditor
23 Bernard Senior 1 March 1907 1909 Henry Arthur Blake
24 D. S. MacGregor 8 April 1909 1914 Henry Edward McCallum
25 Wilfred Wentworth Woods 27 May 1914 1922 Robert Chalmers
26 F. G. Morley 1 March 1922 1931 William Manning
27 Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke 25 June 1931 1946 Graeme Thomson
Auditor General
28 E. Allen Smith 16 February 1946 1953 Henry Monck-Mason Moore
29 Lionel Arthur Weerasinghe 2 March 1953 1963 Herwald Ramsbotham
30 D. S. De Silva 14 September 1963 1964 William Gopallawa
31 B. L. W. Fernando 21 February 1964 1969
32 D. R. Settinayake 15 August 1969 1971
33 P. M. W. Wijayasuriya 11 October 1971 1983
34 W. Gamini Epa 2 May 1983 1993 J. R. Jayewardene
35 S. M. Sabry 26 January 1993 2000 Ranasinghe Premadasa
36 Sarath Chandrasiri Mayadunne 13 August 2000 2006 Chandrika Kumaratunga
37 P. A. Pematilaka 23 October 2006 2007 Mahinda Rajapaksa
38 S. Swarnajothi 3 January 2007 August 2010
39 H. A. S. Samaraweera 2010 2015
40 Gamini Wijesinghe 27 November 2015 Present Maithripala Sirisena

See also

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 4 February 2017.
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