4 Section 30 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows : "
| (1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section ; |
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| (2) by the insertion, immediately after the renumbered subsection (1), of the following new subsections : "
| | " (2) any debt due or payable to a prescribed bank by any owner or occupier of agricultural land shall be a first charge upon"
| | | (a) crops or other agricultural produce; and |
| (b) cattle, fodder for cattle or agricultural implements, |
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| (3) The first charge referred to in subsection (2) may be enforced by the prescribed bank by seizure and sale of the property which forms the subject of the first charge.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts