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| (1) A person to whom any State land is transferred under section 3 or any person on whom the rights of the first-mentioned person in such land have devolved (in this subsection referred to as "the grantee") may nominate a successor who shall be entitled to succeed to the rights of the grantee in such land upon the death of the grantee, A nomination made in pursuance of this subsection shall be deemed not to be a disposition within the meaning of section 5(1) (a). |
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| (2) Any nomination of a successor made in pursuance of subsection (1) may at any time be cancelled by the person who made such nomination and a fresh nomination of a successor may be made by such person. |
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| (3) The nomination of a successor and the cancellation of any such nomination shall be effected by 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 (a) in a document substantially in the prescribed form executed and witnessed in duplicate before a Government Agent, a Registrar of Lands, a Notary a Justice of the Peace; or (b) by his last will. |
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| (4) The provisions of subsections (4), (5), (6), (7) and (9) of section 6 of the Agricultural Lands Law, No. 42 of 1973, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to, and in relation to, a nomination effected in accordance with paragraph (a) of subsection (3). |
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| (5) Regulations may be made prescribing the procedure for the registration of a document referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (3). |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts