8. Section 2 of the Estate Roads Ordinance (here after in this Part referred to as the " principal enactment ") is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted" therefor:-
| 2.
| | (1) The proprietors of any two or more estates situated in the same locality, to which there is no available thoroughfare or branch road leading from some convenient principal thoroughfare, may make application in writing to the Director of Works of the region in which such estates are situated that the provisions of this Ordinance be extended to the said locality. and such application shall set forth, so far as the same may be ascertained, the following particulars:-
| | | (a) the description of the locality; |
| (b) the names of all the estates therein; |
| (c) the names of the proprietors, or if they be absent from Sri Lanka, of the resident manager or superintendent, and of the agents, if any, of each estate; |
| (d) the acreage of each estate, so far as it is known, with the extent: of land under cultivation; |
| (e) the estimated length in miles of the road required to be made to connect the said estates with the most convenient principal thoroughfare; |
| (f) the description of the road required. |
|
| | (2) All applications shall be accompanied, if considered necessary by the Director of Works, by a plan and section of the proposed road drawn to a reasonable scale, and an estimate in detail showing the estimated cost of each half mile of the road. | | |
| | (3) in any case where the estates fall within two regions, the Minister may by Notification published in the Gazette authorize the Director of Works of any such region to exercise in that case the powers conferred by this Ordinance". | | |
|
|
|
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts