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| (1) Any person dissatisfied with a determination made by the Commission, prior to the commencement of this Act, under section 19 of the Land Reform Law specifying the portion or portions of agricultural land which such person shall be allowed to retain may, within three months of the date of commencement of this Act and notwithstanding anything in the aforesaid section 19, appeal to the Commission against such determination. |
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| (2) Where the Commission is satisfied, made to it under subsection (1).-
| | (a) that the appellant has been discriminated against as regards the extent of the portion or portions of agricultural land which he has been allowed to retain by the determination made in respect of him under section 19 of the Land Reform Law; or | | |
| | (b) that in making such determination, the Commission has not taken into consideration the preferences expressed by the appellant in the declaration made by him under section 18 of that Law, | | |
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| (3) Where the Commission cancels, under subsection (2), a determination made under section 19 of the Land Reform Law, such cancellation shall be published in the Gazette, shall come into effect on the date of such publication and shall have the effect of re-vesting in the Commission as from the date of such publication, the right, title and interest in the agricultural land specified in such determination. |
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| (4) Where the Commission cancels a determination made by it under section 19 of the Land Reform Law and makes, a fresh determination under that section, such determination shall specify the portion or portions of the agricultural land specified as owned by the applicant in the declaration made by him under section 18 of that Law which he shall be allowed to retain, so however, that the portion or portions so specified shall be from such part 01 that land as alias not been alienated, on the date of commencement of this Act, to any person under section 22 of that Law, or in respect of which no compensation has been paid under section 28 of that Law. A determination may be made as aforesaid notwithstanding the fact that such person is not, on the date of the determination, the statutory lessee of such land and the provisions of sections 19 (1) (b), 19 (2), 20 and 21 of the Land Reform Law shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to every such determination. |
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| (5) Notwithstanding anything in this Act or in any other law, it shall not be lawful for any person who becomes in consequence or an order or determination made under section 14 or section 19 or section 22 of the Land Reform Law, the owner of any agricultural land over twenty-five acres in extent, to sell otherwise than under the provisions of the Tea and Rubber Estates (Control of Fragmentation) Act, No. 2 of 1958, or the Estates (Control of Transfer and Acquisition) Act, No. 2 of 1972, such land in a manner that may result in the fragmentation of such land. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts