The Ministry was established as the Ministry of Justice, Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils, Local Government and Labour under the Extraordinary Gazette No. 2403/53 dated 27 September 2024. It was subsequently reconstituted as the Ministry of Justice and National Integration by the Extraordinary Gazette No. 2412/08 dated 25 November 2024.
Accordingly, the following departments and institutions function under the purview of this Ministry. The Establishment Division is responsible for coordinating all institutional and administrative activities relating to these organisations.
- Attorney General’s Department
- Legal Draftsman’s Department
- Judicial Service Commission
- Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
- Government Analyst’s Department
- Department of Prisons
- Department of Community-Based Corrections
- Department of Official Languages
- Mediation Boards Commission
- Law Commission of Sri Lanka
- Office of the Secretary to the Labour Tribunals
- Sri Lanka Judges’ Institute
- Legal Aid Commission of Sri Lanka
- National Authority for the Protection of Victims of Crimes and Witnesses
- Office of the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation
- Office for Reparations
- Office on Missing Persons
- Office for National Unity and Reconciliation
- Supreme Court Complex Management Board
- Official Languages Commission
- National Institute of Language Education and Training (NILET)
- Office for the National Coexistence and Reconciliation Commission
- Council of Legal Education
Functions of the Division
The Establishment Division is responsible for handling all institutional and administrative affairs of the Ministry, coordinating the activities of the institutions and departments under its purview, managing human resource matters relating to non-judicial positions in courts, and providing necessary administrative and institutional support to the courts.
