3. The following new section is Inserted immediately after section 5 of the principal enactment, and shall have effect as section 5A thereof :-
| 5A. Where a settlement officer who has made a declaration under subsection (1) or (4) of section 5, or entered Into an agreement under subsection (4) of section 5, for respect of a land specified In a settlement notice or to any share of, or interest to, any' such land, has reasonable grounds to doubt the authenticity of any document, or the veracity of any evidence, produced before him at any inquiry preceding the making declaration or the entering into of such agreement, he may, at any time prior to the publication under section 8, of the order prescribed by subsection (5) of section summon every claimant to the land specified in such settlement notice or to any share of or interest in, such land to appear before him and to produce the evidence upon which such claimant relies in proof of his claim and shall make fresh inquiry into such claimant and after such Inquiry it shall be lawful for the settlement officer for the purpose of dealing with such claim, to declare the declaration made by him under subsection (1) or subsection (4) of section 5 or the agreement entered into by him under subsection (4) of section 5, as the case may be, to be null and void.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts