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| (1) Notwithstanding anything in any other law, the tenant of any residential premises which is purchased by any person under the Partition Act or which is allocated to a co-owner under a decree for partition shall be deemed to be the tenant of such purchaser or of such co-owner, as the case may be, and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly, and where such tenant is deprived of any amenities as a result of such partition, the owner of the premises where such amenities are located shall permit such tenant to utilise such amenities without making any payment therefor until such amenities are provided by such purchaser or co-owner or by the tenant under sub-section (3). |
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| (2) The board may, on application made by the tenant of any premises referred to in sub-section (1), or by the owner of the premises where such amenities are located, by order fix the period within which such purchaser or co-owner shall provide the amenities. |
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| (3) The board shall in any order under sub-section (2) authorize the tenant, in the event of the purchaser or co-owner failing to provide the amenities within the period fixed by the board, to provide the amenities and to incur for the purpose expenditure not exceeding such amount as may be specified in that behalf in the order; and where such amenities are provided by the tenant in pursuance of the authority so conferred, the tenant shall be entitled to set off against the rent payable in respect of the premises, the expenditure actually incurred by him for the purpose or the amount specified in that behalf in the order, whichever is less. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts