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Part I · Rights of Persons Who Cultivate Paddy Lands

20. Application of Land Acquisition Act

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

(1)

Any paddy land specified in section 6, being a paddy land which is cultivated by a tenant cultivator and which has not been sold to such tenant cultivator at the expiration of a period of two years from the date of commencement of this

Act, shall be deemed to be required for the purposes of this

Act, and may be acquired under the Land Acquisition Act.

(2)

A paddy land acquired under the provisions of subsection (1) shall vest in the Land Bank established by this

Act.

(3)

The tenant cultivators of any paddy land acquired under subsection (1) shall be paid compensation computed in accordance to section 19 of this Act.

Read on from s 21

Part II

Utilising Agricultural Lands in Accordance with Agricultural Policies

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Part III

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Part IV

Establishment of Agrarian Tribunals

Read on from Part IV

Part V

Institutional Structure of Farmers’ Organisations

Read on from Part V

Part VI

Agrarian Development Councils

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Part VII

Irrigation Work and the Management of Irrigation Water

Read on from Part VII

Part VIII

General Provisions

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Schedules