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| (1) Where an application made to the Board is rejected by the Board and it is the opinion of the Board that substantial hardship is likely to be caused to the applicant by the rejection of the application, the Board may, with the consent of the applicant, recommend to the Minister that the tea or rubber estate to which the application relates shall be acquired by the Crown. |
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| (2) Upon a recommendation made under subsection (1), the Minister may determine that the tea or rubber estate to which the recommendation relates shall be acquired by the Crown, and where the Minister so determines, the determination shall be published in the Gazette. |
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| (3) Where a determination under subsection (2) in respect of a tea or rubber estate is published in the Gazette, such estate shall, for the purposes of the Land Acquisition Act, be deemed to be a land needed for a public purpose and the provisions of such Act, subject to the exceptions and modifications specified in the Schedule to this Act, shall apply for the purposes of the acquisition of such estate. |
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| (4) Where an Order under section 38 of the Land Acquisition Act is made in respect of a tea or rubber estate which is deemed under subsection (3) to be a land needed for a public purpose, and before possession of such estate is taken for and on behalf of Her Majesty in pursuance of such Order the applicant with whose consent the Board had recommended the acquisition of such estate by the Crown makes a written request to the acquiring officer to abandon the acquisition proceedings in respect of such estate, the acquisition proceedings shall be abandoned and such Order shall be revoked by an Order made and published in the Gazette under section 39 of such Act, and such applicant shall not be entitled to the payment of any costs incurred by him in the acquisition proceedings in court or before the Board of Review constituted under such Act. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts