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Part I · Rights of Persons Who Cultivate Paddy Lands

19. Fixing of compensation to be paid to the tenant cultivator

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

The landlord of any extent of paddy land may make application to the Commissioner-General to have such extent exempted from the application of the provisions of section 6.

(2)

The Commissioner-General shall, after inquiry, make order that the provisions of section 6 shall cease to apply to the extent of paddy land in respect of which an application has been made to him under subsection (1), upon being satisfied that the applicant has paid to the tenant cultivator of that extent, compensation of a sum not less than the equivalent in money of the number of bushels of paddy that can be obtained from such extent during one season (regard being had, for this purpose, to the number of bushels of paddy that can be obtained from an acre of paddy land in the area in which such extent is situated) multiplied by ten.

Part II

Utilising Agricultural Lands in Accordance with Agricultural Policies

Part III

Part IV

Establishment of Agrarian Tribunals

Part V

Institutional Structure of Farmers’ Organisations

Part VI

Agrarian Development Councils

Part VII

Irrigation Work and the Management of Irrigation Water

Part VIII

General Provisions

Schedules