Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act (No. 23 of 1964)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Insertion of new section 40A in the principal Act

14. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 40, and shall have effect as section 40A, of the principal Act: -

40A. Where an Order of the Minister under section 38 is published in the Gazette, then,-

	(a) where that Order is in regard to the taking possession of a particular land, that Order shall, for so long only as it is not subsequently revoked under section 39, be received in all courts as conclusive evidence of the title of Her Majesty to that land ; or

	(b) where that Order is in regard to the subjection of a particular land to a particular servitude, that Order shall be received in all courts as conclusive evidence that such land is subject to such servitude, and that such servitude, may be utilized for the public purpose for which it was acquired. ".