8. Section 13 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :-
| (1) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection :-
| | "(1) Where the Court is satisfied that a partition action has been registered as a lis pendens under the Registration of Documents Ordinance, that the estimated costs of the preliminary survey of the land to which the action relates have been deposited in Court and that the plaintiff in the action has complied with the provisions of section 12, the Court shall order that such summonses, translations of summonses, copies and translations of the plaint or the concise statements, as the case may be, copies of the notices and copies of the translations of the notices filed in court under paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (f) and (g) of subsection (2) of section 12 be sent by registered post to the defendant and the respective Grama Niladharis; and that copies of the notice filed under paragraph (f) of subsection (2) of section 12, together with copies of translations thereof be transmitted to the Fiscal for exhibition and proclamation as provided for in subsection (3) of section 15" ; | | |
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| (2) by the substitution, in subsection (3) thereof, for all the words from "under subsection (2) of this section" to the end of that section, of the following :- |
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| (3) in substitution (4)of that section, by the substitution, for the words "summons issued for service on that defendant", of the words "summons sent by registered post to that defendant.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts