7. Section 48A of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution, for subsection (1) of that section, of the following subsection :
| " (1) Upon the death of a permit-holder who at the time of his or her death was required to pay any annual instalments by virtue of the provisions of subsection (2) of section 19, notwithstanding default in the payment of such instalments, the spouse of that permit-holder, whether he or she has or has not been nominated as successor by that permit-holder, shall be entitled to succeed to the land alienated to that permit-holder on the permit and the terms and conditions of that permit shall be applicable to that spouse.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts