Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsReduction of number of houses
| 5. Where any person who owned a number of houses on November 9, 1971, has, after such date and before the date of commencement of this Law, reduced the number of houses owned by him otherwise than by outright sale or gift, such person shall be deemed to own the number of houses he owned on November 9, 1971, unless he satisfies the Commissioner that he had taken steps to so reduce the number of houses prior to November 9, 1971, or had reduced such number for the purpose of providing accommodation to the members of his family. |