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State Lands (Recovery Of Possession) (Amendment) |
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| AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATE LANDS (RECOVERY OF POSSESSION) ACT, NO. 7 OF 1979. | | |
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| BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :- | |
[17th October , 1997 ] |
Short title. | 1. This Act may be cited as the State Lands (Recovery, of Possession) (Amendment) Act, No. 29 of 1997. | Amendment of section 18 of Act No. 7 of 1979. | 2. Section 18 of the State Lands (Recovery of Possession) Act, No. 7 of 1979 as amended by Acts, Nos. 58 of 1981,29 of 1983 and 50 of 1987 is hereby further amended in the definition of "competent authority" as follows :" | (i) by the re-lettering of paragraphs (g), (gg), (h) and (i) of that definition, as paragraphs (i), (j), (k) and (l) respectively, of that definition ; and | | (ii) by the insertion, immediately after paragraph (f) of that definition, of the following new paragraphs :" | "(g) the Director-General of Agriculture, where such land is under the control of the Department of Agriculture ; | | (h) the head of any other Government Department or Institution being a department or institution created by law, where such land is under the control of such department or institution. | | | Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency. | 3. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. | |
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