K. M. S. DISSANAYAKE, J.

This order relates to the clarification sought by the learned President’s Counsel for the Petitioner as regards the effective date of the interim order issued against the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Respondents by this Court on 31.01.2025 as prayed for in prayer b) of the petition of the Petitioner dated 29.01.2025 filed of record with its effective period limiting only for a period of 14 days from the date of the grant of the same on the application made to Court ex-parte by the learned President’s Counsel for the Petitioner. The divergence of interpretation sought to be adverted to, by the respective Counsel for the Petitioner and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Respondents had given rise to the instant application for clarification as regards the effective date of the interim order so issued by this Court in that it was maintained by the learned President’s Counsel for the Petitioner that it is retrospective in its effect and hence, the interim order should relate back to the date of the interdiction of the services of the Petitioner, namely; on 03.01.2025 until its dissolution by Court on 13.01.2025, whereas, it was maintained by the learned State Counsel that it is prospecti