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| (1) Upon the completion of an assessment list or acreage list, the Pradeshiya Sabha shall cause to be given public notice thereof and the place where the assessment list or the acreage list may be inspected. |
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| (2) Any person shall be permitted free of charge, to inspect any portion of such assessment list or acreage list. |
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| (3) The Pradeshiya Sabha shall cause a notice of assistant of the annual value or verification of the extent to be served on, or left at. the premises of every occupier whether he be owner or tenant of the house, building, land or tenement assessed or cultivated land the extent of which was verified. The said notice shall be substantially in the form set out in the Third Schedule. Such notice shall further intimate that written objection to the assessment or verification will be received at the Pradeshiya Sabha office, within thirty days from the date of service of the notice. |
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| (4) The Pradeshiya Sabha shall cause to be kept a book to be called the" Book of Objections " and cause every objection to an assessment or verification to be registered therein. The Pradeshiya Sabha shall cause to be give notice in writing to each objector and the owner or occupier of the house, building, land or tenement or cultivated land of the day on which and the place and the time at which the objections will be investigated. |
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| (5) At the time and place so fixed the Pradeshiya Sabha shall cause to be investigated the objections in the presence of the objector, owner and occupier or their authorized agents who may be present. Such investigation may be adjourned from time to time for reasonable cause. |
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| (6) When any objection to an assessment or verification is disposed of, the Pradeshiya Sabha shall cause the decision thereon to be notified to the objector, owner and occupier and such decision shall be noted in the Book of objections, and any necessary amendment shall be made in the assessment list or the acreage list, as the case may be. |
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| (7) Every assessment against which no objection is taken shall be final for the period for which such assessment list or acreage list, as the case may be, continues to be in force. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts