10. Section 16 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section, as follows:-
| (1) by the substitution for the words "Where the Court orders the issue of summonses to the fiscal for service on the defendants in a partition action", of the words, " Where the court orders the service of summonses on the defendants in a partition action,". |
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| (2) by the repeal of the proviso to that subsection, and the substitution of the following proviso therefor :- |
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"Provided that the court may on application made by the Commissioner and for reasons to be recorded, extend, from time to time, the date fixed in the Commission for the return thereof, so however, that each such extension shall not exceed sixty days.". |
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