Apartment Ownership (Special Provisions) (Sri Lanka)

Apartment Ownership (Special Provisions)

Published: 2002-12-04

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Apartment Ownership (Special Provisions)

Apartment Ownership (Special Provisions)

AN ACT TO AMEND THE APARTMENT OWNERSHIP (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, NO, 4 OF 1999

BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :-

[4^th December , 2002 ]

Short title.

1.This Act may be cited as the Apartment Ownership (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Act, No. 27 of 2002.

Replacement of section 3 of Act no 4 of 1999.

2.Section 3 of the Apartment Ownership (Special Provisions) Act, No. 4 of 1999 (hereinafter referred to as the "principal enactment") is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor :

Extension of Part 1 of the principal enactment.

3. The provisions of Part I of the principal Enactment shall be in operation till December 31, 2003."

Retrospective effect.

3. The amendment made to the principal enactment by section 2 of this Act, shall be deemed for all purposes to have come into operation on March 10, 2001.

Validation.

(1) A condominium plan relating to any condominium property owned by the Commissioner of National Housing or The National Housing Development Authority, required to be registered by a Registrar in terms of Section 6 of the Apartment Ownership Law, No. 11 of 1973, which is so registered during the period commencing on or after March 10, 2001 and ending on the day prior to the date of commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been validly registered in accordance with the requirements of the afore said action.

(2) A certificate as is described in subsection (2) of section 2 of the principal enactment, issued under the hand of the Commissioner of National Housing or the General Manager of the National Housing Development Authority during the period commencing an or alter March 10, 2001 and ending on the day prior to the date of commencement of this Act, shall he deemed to have been validly issued in accordance with the requirements of the aforesaid section.

Sinhala text to prevail in case of in consistency

5. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.