Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsProceedings on receipt of an application for ejectment
| 7. Upon receipt of an application for ejectment in respect of any local authority quarters, a Magistrate's Court shall forthwith issue, and if need be reissue, a writ of possession to the Fiscal of that Court, requiring and authorizing such Fiscal before a date specified in the writ, not being a date earlier than three or later than seven clear days from the date of issue of such writ, to deliver possession of such quarters to the competent authority or other person authorized in that behalf and specified in the quit notice relating to such premises. Such writ shall be sufficient authority for the said Fiscal or any police officer authorized by him in that behalf, to enter such quarters with such assistants as the Fiscal or such officer shall deem necessary and to give possession accordingly, and to eject the occupier and his dependants, if any, from such quarters. |