Brumbys International Private Limited and D. Don Priyantha Nirmal Weerasinghe vs. Employees Trust Board – CA WRIT/337/2014-2014

In the case between Brumbys International Private Limited, D. Don Priyantha Nirmal Weerasinghe (Petitioners), and the Employees Trust Board (Respondent), the legal issue concerned the lawfulness of surcharges imposed on the employer for alleged late contributions to the Employees Trust Fund for 2004–2005. The Petitioners maintained that all dues had been settled and that the Respondent’s subsequent surcharge demands, made several years after closure of business operations, lacked proper notification and procedural fairness as mandated by law. Relief by way of Writ of Certiorari and Prohibition was sought to nullify and restrain enforcement of belated surcharge certificates. The holding established that the Employees Trust Fund Board failed to comply with statutory requirements for timely n