25. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 91 of the principal enactment and shall have effect as section 91A of that enactment: -
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| | (1) Where a day is fixed or time appointed for doing any act or taking any proceeding by a party to the action, the court may, from time to time, upon the motion of such party and, if sufficient cause is shown, fix another day or enlarge or abridge the time appointed, upon such terms, if any, as to it may seem proper. | | |
| | (2) The day may be refixed or the time enlarged although the application for the same is not made until after the expiration of the day or time fixed or appointed. | | |
| | (3) The court may. for sufficient cause, either on the application of the parties or of its own motion, advance, postpone or adjourn the trial to any other date upon such terms as to costs or otherwise as to it shall seem proper. | | |
| | (4) Where a date is fixed on or before which an act has to be done by a party to the action or a return has to be made to a commission issued by the court, the case shall be called in open court on such date for the purpose of making an appropriate order in connection there with or relating thereto.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts