12. Section 6 of the principal enactment hereby amended. by the substitution, for subsection (1) and (2) thereof, of the following new subsections
| " (1) Where the responsibility for the maintenance of a public road is imposed on the owner or owners of any estate by any public road order, the appropriate road authority shall, after consultation with the Secretary to the Ministry in charge of the subject, of Highways, determine-
| | (a) what portion of the cost of such maintenance shall be paid from time to time to such owner or owners by the Secretary to the Ministry in charge of the subject of Highways; and | | |
| | (b) where that estate is owned by more than one person. the apportionment of the Government's contribution to the owners of that estate. | | |
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| (2) The Government's contribution under this Act to the cost of maintenance of a road may be increased or reduced from time to time by the appropriate road authority, after consultation with the Secretary to the Ministry in charge of the subject of Highways. by a fresh determination made either of his own motion or on application made in then behalf by the owner or any of the owners of the estate on whom the responsibility for the maintenance of that road is imposed under this Act.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts