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| (1) The movable property seized in execution of any warrant issued under this Part, shall be sold by public auction in accordance with the provisions of this section by the collector or officer to whom the warrant was issued or by some other person authorized in that behalf by the Secretary. |
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| (2) No property which in the opinion of the collector or officer seizing such property exceeds rupees one thousand in value shall be sold under this section
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| | (b) unless notice of the date time and place fixed for the sale has, not less than eleven days before the date so fixed, been published in the Gazette and a newspaper circulating in Sri Lanka.
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| (3) The Secretary of the Pradeshiya Sabha shall cause any movable property seized in execution of any warrant to be sold within a period of sixty days from the date of such seizure. |
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| (4) No property seized in execution of any warrant shall be sold under this section if at or before the time fixed for the sale of such property payment of the amount and of the costs recoverable under the warrant is duly made to the Secretary. |
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