Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsCompensation for injury to property by authorised officers
| 73. Every person who sustains any loss or damage by reason of the exercise by or by the authority of the Chairman of any Pradeshiya Sabha, of any of the powers or authorities conferred by this Part upon officers in charge 0'" works to which it is applicable, shall (except where the Ions or damage is incurred through the act, default, or neglect of such person) be entitled to receive compensation or such loss or damage, if he makes application in that behalf to the Pradeshiya Sabha at any time before the expiration of three months after the claim for compensation ha arisen. Where any such person fails to make such application within' the aforesaid period, is claim to compensation for the alleged loss or damage shall be disallowed, and he shall be barred from recovering such compensation. |