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| (1) After the preliminary survey of the land to which the partition action relates is made, the court shall determine the actual costs of such survey in accordance with the rates set out in the First Schedule to this Law, and, if the actual costs so deter- mined are more than the estimated costs determined under section 8, shall make order specifying the part} by whom, and the date on or before which, the amount of the difference between such actual costs and such estimated costs shall be deposited in court. The court may, for sufficient cause, make a further order of orders extending the time for the deposit of such amount. |
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| (2) If the amount due to a surveyor as the costs of the survey of a land to which a partition action relates is not paid as ordered by the court, it shall be lawful for the court to direct the recovery thereof in the same action as though the order for the payment of that amount were a decree in favour of that survey our against the party ordered to pay that amount. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts