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| (1) The Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, appoint any High Court to have admiralty jurisdiction and assign to such Court as its zone for admiralty purposes any one or more zones or any part or parts thereof, and the zone so constituted for such Court, with the territorial waters adjacent thereto, shall be deemed its zone for admiralty purposes; and accordingly such High Court shall have jurisdiction for those purposes throughout the zone as if the same was a zone defined and determined under section 5. |
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| (2) If more than one court is appointed under subsection (1), any proceeding may be commenced in a High Court so appointed within whose jurisdiction the vessel or property to which the cause relates is at the commencement of the proceedings, or the owner of such vessel or property or his recognized agent in Sri Lanka resides. If such owner or agent does not reside within the jurisdiction of any High Court so appointed, such proceeding may be commenced in the High Court having admiralty jurisdiction nearest to the place where such owner or agent, as the case may be, resides. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts