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| (1) Where any person in receipt of a notice under section 14 (1), section 14 (2) or section 22 (1) fails to pay the amount of land betterment charge a demand for which is made in such notice, within the time allowed for the payment of the same, the land betterment charges officer may issue a certificate to the Magistrate's Court having jurisdiction over the place where the land in respect of which land such land betterment charge is payable is situated, containing particulars of the amount due as land betterment charge, and the surcharges, if any, on such amount, and the name of the person liable to pay the same, and the Court shall thereupon direct a writ of execution to issue to the Fiscal authorizing and requiring him to seize and sell all and any of the property, movable and immovable of such person , or such part thereof as he may deem necessary for the recovery of such amount, and the amount of the surcharges, if any, on such amount, and the provisions of -the Administration of Justice Law, No. 44 of 1973, as amended by Law No. 25 of 1975, relating to1 the seizure and sale of property shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to such seizure and sale. |
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| (2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law as to the limitations of the monetary jurisdiction of a Magistrate's Court, any such Court shall be competent to recover any amount specified in any certificate Issued under the provisions of subsection (1). |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts