Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsMethod of determination of the market value of lands of which possession is deemed to be taken under section 2 of the principal Act and in respect of which proceedings under the repealed Land Acquisition Ordinance are pending in any District Court
| 9. Where in respect of any land of which possession is deemed to be taken by virtue of section 2 of the principal Act proceedings under the repealed Land Acquisition Ordinance are pending in any District Court on the date on which this Act comes into force, then, for the purposes of determining the amount of compensation to be awarded under that Ordinance for any such land, the market value of such land shall, notwithstanding anything in that Ordinance, be the market value which such land would have at the time of awarding compensation if it had remained in the condition in which it was at the date on which possession thereof was taken by a competent authority under regulation 34 of the Defence (Miscellaneous) Regulations as having effect by virtue of the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act, 1945, of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. |