31. All property movable or immovable enjoyed or controlled on December 31, 1938, by the inhabitants of any village area or of any area deemed by virtue of any written law to be a village area under this Ordinance, shall be vested in the Village Council constituted or so deemed to have been constituted for that area under the provisions of this Ordinance : Provided, however,-
| (i) that any building used, whether in whole or in part as the court-house of a Rural Court together with the land on which that building stands and any other land or building appurtenant thereto, may, if such building and any such land have heretofore been vested in the inhabitants or are vested in the Village Council of the area in which they are situate, be resumed by or transferred to the Crown by Order of the Minister1 published in the Gazette ; and |
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| (ii) that the publication of such Order shall, without the execution of any deed or instrument, be sufficient to convey to the Crown the right, title and interest of the inhabitants or of the Council in the land or building affected by such Order, and the description in any such Order of any land or building as appurtenant to any court-house to which the Order relates shall, as between the Crown and the inhabitants or the Council, be conclusive proof of the fact that it is so appurtenant. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts