Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsRecovery of payments in excess of authorized rent or receivable rent
| 32. Where any tenant of any premises has paid by way of rent to the landlord, in respect of any period any amount in excess of the authorized rent, or the receivable rent, or the proportionate rent, as the case may be, of the premises or part thereof, such tenant shall be entitled to recover the excess amount from the landlord, and may, without prejudice to any other method of recovery, deduct such excess amount from the rent payable by him to the landlord. |