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| (1) Section 14 of the Registration of Documents Ordinance, hereinafter referred to as the" principal enactment", is hereby amended by the substitution, for subsection (1) thereof, of the following subsection: -
| | (1) Every instrument presented for registration shall be registered in the book allotted to the division in which the land affected by the instrument is situated and in the folio in which the first registered instrument affecting the same land is registered, or in another folio (whether of the same volume or of another volume) bearing a separate number, opened in continuation thereof, cross reference being entered in the prescribed manner so as to connect the said folios: | | |
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| (2) The amendment made in section 14 of the principal enactment by subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to have come into force on the date of commencement of the principal enactment: |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts