Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Sale of State Lands (Special Provisions) Law (No. 43 of 1973)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.	   Short title  
   2.	   Government Agent to report on state land for sale in his district  
   3.	   Land commissioner to take action on such report  
   4.	   Land Commissioner to convey to Government Agent his decision  
   5.	   Notification of sale of State land  
   6.	   Persons to whom state land may be alienated  
   7.	   Appeal to Land commissioner  
   8.	   Government Agent not to alienate the land, to which an appeal relates  
   9.	   Price to be paid for purchase of and  
   10.	   Payment immediate or in instalments  
   11.	   When grant is given  
   12.	   Cancellation of sale  
   13.	   Form of grant and conditions therein  
   14.	   Registration of grants  
   15.	   Diagram to be attached to grant  
   16.	   Copy to be supplied on payment of prescribed fee  
   17.	   Payment in instalments  
   18.	   When Permit is granted  
   19.	   Survey of land and registration of permit  
   20.	   Permit to remain in force till grant is obtained  
   21.	   Where permit is converted to a grant  
   22.	   Conditions in, a grant or permit to run with the land  
   23.	   Protection of lands held on permits or grants  
   24.	   Disposition of land on grant or permit  
   25.	   Last will of holder to have certain limitations  
   26.	   Devolution of title in case of intestacy  
   27.	   Government Agent to cancel permits  
   28.	   Notice to issue on party in occupation to vacate land  
   29.	   Report to a Magistrate if person served with notice refuses to vacate land  
   30.	   Summons to issue  
   31.	   Order of ejectment where no cause is shown  
   32.	   Inquiry if cause is shown  
   33.	   Order of ejectment  
   34.	   Execution of order of ejectment  
   35.	   Instalment already paid to be refunded on cancellation  
   36.	   Alienees under land Development Ordinance have right to purchase under this law  
   37.	   Special provisions to apply in respect of land acquired under the Land Redemption Ordinance and alienated by way of grant or Permit issued under the Land Development Ordinance  
   38.	   Where application is made by alienees under the Land Development Ordinance  
   39.	   New manner of payment  
   40.	   Provisions of this law to apply to old permits  
   41.	   Grant under the Land Development Ordinance converted to a grant under this law  
   42.	   Alienation of land under the Land Development Ordinance to be cancelled  
   43.	   Power to make regulations  
   44.	   No prescriptive title to be acquired to land alienated under permit  
   45.	   Notary prohibited from attesting instrument of disposition of land held under grant of permit  
   46.	   Notary attesting deed in breach of section 45 guilty of an offence  
   47.	   Punishment for encroachers  
   48.	   Action re vindicatio may be maintained against State in respect of alienated land  
   49.	   Power to acquire land the title of" which has been vindicated under section 48  
   50.	   Protection of state officers  
   51.	   General law not to apply to land sold under this Law  
   52.	   Agricultural Productivity Law to apply to land alienated under this Law  
   53.	   Repeal of Chapters 11 and III of Land Development Ordinance  
   54.	   Amendment of other written law  
   55.	   Interpretation