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| (1) If any occupier upon whom an order nisi has been served under this Part, does not appear on the date specified in such order or on such other date, if any, to which the hearing may be adjourned under this Part or, having appeared fails to show good and valid cause why he should not deliver possession as required by section 63 of the building specified in the order and depart from the land or premises on which it is situated together with his dependants and every other person occupying in such land or premises or any portion thereof the order nisi shall be made absolute; and the court shall forthwith issue, and if need be reissue a writ of possession to the Fiscal of the district requiring and authorizing him before a date specified in the writ, not earlier than two calendar months and not later than two calendar months from the date of the issue of such writ, to deliver possession of the building to the landlord or to any other person appointed by the landlord for the purpose and to eject from the land or premises on which the building is situated the occupier, his dependants and every other person occupying such land or premises or any portion thereof : |
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| (2) In the preceding proviso, " reasonable cause " means
| | (a) the illness of the occupier or any of his dependants ; or | | |
| | (b) the failure of the landlord in any case referred to in subsection (2) of section 63 to pay any wages lawfully due to the occupier or to grant him any benefits or privileges to which he is entitled to under any other written law to receive from the landlord in his capacity as an employer; or | | |
| | (c) the failure of the landlord in that capacity, to issue to the occupier any discharge certificate or identification certificate which should properly be given to him; or | | |
| | (d) the failure of the landlord in any case where the building is let on terms enabling the occupier to become the owner after making a certain number of specified payments of rent, to repay to the occupier any sum for the repayment of which provision is made in the event of the termination of his occupation in the agreement entered into between the landlord and the occupier. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts