Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 20. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- " agricultural land " has the same meaning as in the Land Reform Law; "disposition " with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means any transaction of whatever nature affecting land or the title thereto, and includes any conveyance, transfer, surrender, ex change, lease or mortgage of land or the creation of a trust attaching to land; " estate land " has the same meaning as in the Land Re- form Law ; " Land Commissioner" means the Land Commissioner appointed under the Land Development Ordinance ; "Land Reform Commission" means the Land Reform Commission established by the Land Reform Law; " Land Reform Law " means the Land Reform Law, No. 1 of 1972, as amended by Law No. 39 of 1975 ; "mineral" has the same meaning as in the Mines and Minerals Law, No. 4 of 1973 ; " prescribed " means prescribed by regulation made under section 18. |