27. The Pradeshiya Sabha of each Pradeshiya Sabha area may within that area
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| (b) widen, open, enlarge or otherwise improve or turn, divert, discontinue, or stop up, whether in whole or in part, any public street or thoroughfare, not being a principal thoroughfare, and with the sanction of the Minister in charge of the subject of highways, any principal thoroughfare, making due compensation to the owner or occupier of any property required for such purposes, or any person whose legal rights are thereby infringed. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts