Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsApplication of Act to deserters, &c
| 14. Where a servicemen deserts or is absent without leave for twenty-one days, the provisions of this Act shall apply as if such servicemen were dead, subject to the modification that the committee shall dispose of any property and money of that servicemen remaining in its hands after the payment of the preferential charges and expenses referred to in section 7 (1) in the prescribed manner, and that property and money when so disposed of shall be free from all claim on the part of that servicemen or any person claiming through him. |