113. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 760, and shall have effect as section 760A, of the principal enactment: -
| 760A. Where at any time after the lodging of an appeal in any civil action, proceeding or matter, the record becomes defective by reason of the death or change of status of a party to the appeal, the Supreme Court may in the manner provided in the rules made under section 15 of the Administration of Justice Law, No. 44 of 1973, determine who, in the opinion of the court, is the proper person to be substituted or entered on the record in place of, or in addition to, the party who has died or undergone a change of status, and the name of such person shall thereupon be deemed to be substituted or entered of record as aforesaid.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts