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| (1) The Agricultural Productivity Law, No. 2 of 1972, and the Agricultural Lands Law, No. 42 of 1973, are hereby repealed. |
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| (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of the aforesaid Laws-
| | (a) all moneys lying to the credit of the Agricultural Productivity Fund established under section 44 of the Agricultural Productivity Law, No. 2 of 1972, and all moneys lying to the credit of the Food Production Fund established under the provisions of section 14 of the Food Production (Estates) Act shall be transferred to the Agrarian Services Fund established under this Act; | | |
| | (b) the assets and liabilities of the Agricultural Productivity Committees established under the Agricultural Productivity Law, No. 2 of 1972, and the Cultivation Committees established under the Agricultural Lands Law, No. 42 of 1973, shall be transferred to the Agrarian Services Committees established under this Act; | | |
| | (c) all Agricultural Productivity Committees established under the Agricultural Productivity Law, No. 2 of 1972, shall continue to function until Agrarian Services Committees are constituted under this Act; | | |
| | (d) all proceedings under section 14 of the Paddy Lands Act, No. 1 of 1958, before the Commissioner of Agrarian Services which were pending under the provisions of the Agricultural Lands Law, No. 42 of 1973, before an Agricultural Tribunal on the date prior to the date of commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be null and void; | | |
| | (e) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Prescription Ordinance all claims for damages accruing to tenant cultivators under section 4(7A) of the Paddy Lands Act, No. 1 of 1958, and under section 3 (9) of the Agricultural Lands Law, No. 42 of 1973, shall be deemed to be claims accruing to such tenants under the provisions of this Act and shall be recoverable in the manner provided under the corresponding provisions of this Act; | | |
| | (f) all proceedings pending before an Agricultural Tribunal under the provisions of the Agricultural Productivity Law, No. 2 of 1972, and the Agricultural Lands Law, No. 42 of 1973, on the date prior to the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be proceedings before the Commissioner under the provisions of this Act and shall accordingly be continued and concluded before such Commissioner under the provisions of this Act; | | |
| | (g) all proceedings which have been commenced and concluded before an Agricultural Tribunal under the provisions of the Agricultural Productivity Law, No, 2 of 1972, or the Agricultural Lands Law, No. 42 of 1973, and in respect of which no appeals have been made to the Supreme Court under the provisions of the aforesaid Laws or where appeals have been made and dismissed and where no steps for enforcement of orders made in such proceedings have been taken in the Magistrates' Courts under the provisions of the aforesaid Laws, such proceedings shall be deemed to be proceedings under the provisions of this Act and shall be enforced in accordance with the corresponding provisions of this Act; | | |
| | (h) all proceedings before the Magistrates Courts under section 21 of the Paddy Lands Act, No. 1 of 1958, which were pending or which had been instituted and withdrawn on any ground whatsoever on a date prior to the date of commencement of the Agricultural Lands Law, No. 42 of 1973, shall be deemed not to have abated or to have been discontinued or in any way prejudicially affected by reason of the repeal of the said Act or Law and accordingly all such proceedings shall be continued and concluded under the corresponding provisions of this Act; | | |
| | (i) all proceedings pending in any court under the provisions of the Agricultural Productivity Law, No. 2 of 1972 or the Agricultural Lands Law, No. 42 of 1973, on the date prior to the date of commencement of this Act shall be heard and concluded under the provisions of this Act; | | |
| | (j) every regulation made under the Agricultural Productivity Law, No. 2 of 1972, and the Agricultural Lands Law, No. 42 of 1973, and in force on the date prior to the date of commencement of this Act and which is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be a regulation made under this Act and may accordingly be amended, added to or rescinded by regulations made under this Act. | | |
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