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| (1) Where any rates, taxes or charges leviable in respect of any unit by any local authority or public authority are due or payable and the owner has failed to make payment thereof, such authority may serve upon the body corporate a copy of the notice of assessment of such rates, taxes or charges, together with a notice requiring the body corporate to pay such rates, taxes or charges within a specified time from the date of such service. |
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| (2) If, under sub-section (1), a body corporate fails to pay the rates, taxes or charges within the period specified, the local authority or public authority may, without prejudice to its right against any owner, sue the body corporate for the recovery of such rates, taxes or charges as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction and may exercise any other remedies available to that authority under any other written law, as if the body corporate were the sole owner of the unit and the rates, taxes or charges levied were the rates, taxes or charges applicable to that unit. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts