Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsSale of materials of ruinous houses
| 37. If any house, building or wall, or any pact thereof be pulled down by any Pradeshiya Sabha under section 36, the Pradeshiya Sabha may sell the materials thereof, or so much of the materials as may have been taken down, and apply the proceeds of such sale in payment of the expenses incurred, and shall, on demand, pay any surplus arising from such sale to the owner of such house, building, or wall: Provided always that, in case no demand for such surplus is made within twelve months by any person entitled to make such demand, the Pradeshiya Sabha shall be at liberty to pay the amount of such surplus to the credit of the Fund of the Pradeshiya Sabha, and shall be freed from any liability to pay or answer for or in respect of such unclaimed surplus: Provided, further, that the Pradeshiya Sabha, notwithstanding that it may have sold such materials for the purposes aforesaid, shall have the same remedies for compelling the payment of so much of the expenses as may remain due after the application of the proceeds of the sale, as by this Act are given to it for compelling the payment of the entirety of the expenses. |