5. Section 9 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion, immediately after subsection (2) of that section, of the following new subsection : -
| " (2A) Where any inquiry under subsection (1) which has been adjourned cannot be resumed on the date notified under subsection (2) to such of the claimants for compensation and their agents as were present on the occasion on which the inquiry was adjourned, the acquiring officer holding the inquiry may from time to time postpone the date of its resumption. Notice of the date to which the resumption of the inquiry is postponed and the time and place at which the inquiry will be resumed shall be sent by registered post to the aforesaid claimants and agents so as to reach them at least seven days before that date.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts