5. Section 8 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor :-
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| | (1) Where the plaint in a partition action, is accepted, the court shall forthwith -
| | | (a) cause to be inserted in each copy of the application for the registration of the action as a lis pendens, a reference to the number assigned by the court to the action ; |
| (b) cause to be transmitted forthwith, and in any event not later than two weeks from the date of acceptance of the plaint, the application in triplicate to the Registrar of Lands of each Land Registry in which the action is to be registered as a lis pendens ; |
| (c) fix a date, being a date not later than seven weeks from the date of acceptance of the plaint, for the return of the registered lis pendens, by the Registrar of Lands:. |
| (d) fix a date being a date not later than seven weeks from the date of acceptance of the plaint, on or before which the plaintiff shall deposit in Court such estimated costs of the preliminary survey of the land to which the action relates as may be determined by Court. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts