Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsUse of force on tenants and causing damage to premises
| 16. No landlord of any premises or other person shall, either by himself or through any other person, directly or indirectly, make use of, or threaten to make use of, any force, violence, or restraint, or inflict or threaten to inflict, any harm, damage or loss, upon or against the tenant of, or any person in occupation of such premises, or damage, remove or tamper with, any part of such premises, in order to induce, compel or prevail upon, such tenant or person to vacate such premises, or to make any payment of money in excess of the authorized rent or the receivable rent, as the case may be, of such premises or the proportionate rent of any part of such premises. |