11. Section 16 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -
| (1) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (3) thereof, of the following new subsection: -
| | " (4) Where any tenement or flat is vested in the Commissioner under this Law, there shall also be vested in the Commissioner such extent of land adjoining or adjacent to the tenement or flat as was, in the opinion of the Commissioner, used in common by all or some of the tenants of the tenement or flat immediately prior to the commencement of this Law; and any sale, gift, lease or other alienation of such extent of land or part-thereof made on or after the date of commencement of this Law except with the written permission of the Commissioner shall be null and void."; and | | |
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| (2) in the marginal note thereto, by the substitution, for the words " appurtenant lands.", of the words " appurtenant and adjoining lands.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts