Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2 Measures taken/current situation Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) ICJ No legislation amending the Judicature Act in order to grant the magistrates more power has been passed in the last four years. Reparations 84. The Working Group recommends that the Government of Sri Lanka: (a) Develop, as a matter of urgency, a national reparations policy taking into account the specific needs of women and children and make adequate provisions for it in the State budget; Paragraph 59 64 Government Office for Reparations Act No 34 of 2018 (accessible at https://www.parliament.lk/uploads/acts/gbills/english/6107.pdf) replaced the Rehabilitation of Persons, Properties and Ondustries Authority Act (REPPIA Act) No 29 of 1987 which had the mandate of assisting in the rehabilitation of affected persons by way of an outright grant or any such other means as REPPIA may be deemed necessary. The Office for Reparations Act was passed by Parliament on 10 October 2018 and was certified by the Speaker of Parliament on 22 October 2018. Upon the nominations of the Constitutional Council, the President appointed the Commissioners on 3 January 2019 and the Office is now operationalized. The Working Group notes that the Office for Reparations is now operational and that the 2019 budget allocates funds to the Office. The Group reiterates its recommendation to develop, as a matter of urgency, a national reparations policy taking into account the specific needs of women and children. The Act makes provisions to individual and collective reparations to victims of serious violations of human rights or humanitarian law and to their relatives. Reparations could be material or symbolic, individual or collective and include financial compensation as well as restoring political and civil rights, physical rehabilitation, granting access to land, healthcare or education, irrespective of ethnic and religious identity, community or background. OMP 106 79 107 Office for Reparations Act, No. 34 of 2018, Section 2(a). OMP Act, above n 16, Section 27(a). A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 In 2018, the Government enacted the Office for Reparations Act, No. 34 of 2018. The Act provides for an Office for Reparations which has a mandate to award individual and collective reparations.106 The Office is mandated to award reparations to persons who have suffered damage as a result of loss life or damage to their person or property inter alia in connection with the armed conflict, due to political unrest, civil disturbances, or an enforced disappearance. 107 In April 2019, His Excellency the President appointed Mrs. Dhara