| 10. Where a person to whom State land has been transferred under section 3 or any person on whom the rights of the first-mentioned person in such land have devolved (in this section referred to as "the grantee ") dies and the grantee has not nominated a successor under section 9, or where the successor nominated by the grantee under that section is dead, the rights of the grantee in such land shall devolve on his surviving spouse and, failing such spouse, on one only of the relatives of the grantee in the following order-
the oldest being preferred to the others where there are more relatives than two in any group, and the older being preferred to the other where there are only two relatives in any group. In this section, " relative" means a relative by blood and not by marriage. |
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts