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| (1) Save as otherwise provided in subsection (2) the, provisions of section 4 shall apply in the case of any default is dead, notwithstanding chat the borrower may have died or that any right, title or interest whatsoever m the property mortgaged to the bank as security for the loan any have passed be the Voluntary conveyance or operation of law to any other person. |
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| (2) Where a borrower is dead and probate of his will or letters of administration to his estate have not been issued to any person, the District Court of Colombo or the District Court of the district in which the property, mortgaged to the Bank by the borrower, is situate, may upon application made in that behalf by a bank and after service of notice of the application on such persons, if any, as the court may order, and if satisfied that the grant of probate or the issue of letters of administration is likely to be unduly delayed, appoint a person to represent the estate of the borrower for the purposes of this section ; and the provisions of section 4 shall not apply in the case of any default made by such borrower unless and until a parson is appointed under this subsection to represent the estate of such borrower. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts