30. Section 47 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: "
| (a) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:"
| | "(1) An Agrarian Services Committee may by notice in writing direct every owner or occupier of agricultural land liable to pay acreage levy to such Committee or an person who has failed to repay any loan granted by such Committee to pay such levy or repay such loan, as the case may be, within such period as shall be specified in such notice."; | | |
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| (b) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection : "
| | "(2) Where an Agrarian Services Committee is satisfied after due inquiry that a person to whom a written notice has been given under subsection (1) has failed to pay the amount specified in such notice within the time allowed therefor. such amount shall, on application by an officer authorized in that behalf by such Committee being made to the Magistrate's Court having jurisdiction over the place where the extent of agricultural land in respect of which the levy is payable or which is owned or occupied by the person in default is situated, be recovered in like manner as a fine imposed by such Court. '' ; and | | |
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| (c) in the marginal note of that section by the substitution for the words " acreage levy ", of the words by such Court." ; and |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts