Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsHouses in excess of the permitted number of houses may be sold within twelve months
| 10. Where, on the date of commencement of this Law, any person owns any house in excess of the permitted number of houses, such person may, within a period of twelve months from such date, dispose of such house with notice to the Commissioner, unless the tenant of such house or any person who may under section 38 of the Rent Act, No. 7 of 1972, succeed to the tenancy of such house, has made application with simultaneous notice to the owner for the purchase of such house. |