Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsSection - 7
| 7. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires " appointed date " means the date of the commencement of this Act; " Board of Review " has the same meaning as in the principal Act; " Commissioner " means the Commissioner of Agrarian Services, and includes any Deputy Commissioner of Agrarian Services and, in the case of any area for which any Assistant Commissioner of Agrarian Services is appointed, such Assistant Commissioner; " principal Act " means the Paddy Lands Act, No. 1 of 1958, as amended from time to time by any subsequent Act; " relevant act or thing " means any decision or determination or Order or any affirmation or variation thereof made, or any other act or thing by whatsoever name or designation called or done, by the Commissioner in the matter of any relevant document submitted to him, or in respect of any other matter, under the principal Act; " relevant document " means any claim, any notification, any application, any reference, any recommendation or any appeal or any other matter whatsoever submitted to the Commissioner under the principal Act; " relevant proceedings " means, in relation to the Commissioner, any inquiry held by, or any other proceedings taken by or before, the Commissioner in the matter of any relevant document, or in respect of any other matter, submitted to the Commissioner under the principal Act; " submitted to ", in relation to the Commissioner, means submitted to the Commissioner by any mode or means of service whatsoever under the principal Act, |