State Lands (Recovery Of Possession) (Amendment) Act (No. 29 of 1983)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 3 of the principal enactment

3. Section 3 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:

"(a) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection;"

"(1) Where a competent authority is of the opinion"

(a) that any land is State land; and

(b) that any person is in unauthorized possession or occupation of such land,

(b) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection:

	" (1A) No person shall be entitled to any hearing or to make any representation in respect of a notice under subsection (1). "