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| (1) The Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, declare that any area comprising land held by the Board shall, for the purposes of this Act, be a national holiday resort, and may by that Order, or by any Order subsequently published in the Gazette, assign a name to such national holiday resort. |
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| (2) Any Order declaring an area a national holiday resort under this section may define the area by setting out the metes and bounds of the lands or each of the lands comprised in the area. |
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| (3) The Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, declare that from a specified date the limits of any national holiday resort shall be altered or varied. |
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| (4) If the area or any part of the area which is to be declared a national holiday resort by Order made by the Minister under this section is within the administrative limits of any local authority, no such Order shall be made by the Minister, except after consultation with such local authority and with the concurrence of the Minister to whom the subject or function of local government has been assigned by the Prime Minister under section 48 (4) of the relevant Order in Council. |
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| (5) Notwithstanding anything in any provision of this section the House of Representatives may by resolution revoke any Order made by the Minister under this section within fifty days of the publication of such Order in the Gazette, and in the computation of such period of fifty days no account shall be taken of any period during which Parliament is prorogued or dissolved. Such revocation shall be without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts