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| (1) The Viharadipathi or trustee of a temple may within twelve months of the enactment of this section make an application in writing to the Commissioner-General to have an extent of paddy land not exceeding two acres owned by such temple and being cultivated by tenant cultivators exempted from the application of section 6. |
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| | (a) The Commissioner-General shall thereupon cause an inquiry to be held in respect of that application and if there is a tenant cultivator in that extent of paddy land the Commissioner-General shall make order exempting such extent of paddy land from the application of the provisions of section 6. only after affording such tenant cultivator an opportunity to make representations. | | |
| | (b) The Commissioner-General shall in such order require the tenant cultivator or tenant cultivators to vacate the extent of paddy land on or before the date specified in the order. | | |
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| (3) Where the tenant cultivator fails to vacate the extent of paddy land in compliance with such Order, he may be evicted therefrom in accordance with the provisions of section 8, provided that the Commissioner-General shall take action to evict such tenant cultivator only after any compensation payable to him under this section has been paid in full by the applicant. |
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| (4) Where the tenant cultivator refuses to accept the compensation specified in the Order such compensation may be deposited with the Agrarian Development Council within whose area of authority such paddy land is situate. Any compensation so deposited on or before the specified date shall be deemed to have been accepted by the tenant cultivator, and (hat Agrarian Development Council shall, on the application of the tenant cultivator to whom such compensation is payable, make payment to him. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts