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Part II · Utilising Agricultural Lands in Accordance with Agricultural Policies

29. Identification of paddy lands which can be cultivated with paddy and other crops

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

(1)

The Commissioner-General shall identify paddy lands from which sufficient production can be obtained when cultivated with paddy and paddy lands from which sufficient production can be obtained when cultivated with other agricultural crops. The Commissioner-General shall for the purposes of such identification, obtain the observations of the

Farmer Organisation and the Agrarian Development Councils, within whose area of authority such land is situated.

(2)

The Commissioner-General shall appoint Productivity

Committees for each administrative district or for different portions of an administrative district for the purpose assisting in the identification of lands for the purposes of subsection (1).

(3)

The Productivity Committees shall consist persons employed in government departments, statutory bodies or institutions and of persons engaged in agriculture, in each such administrative district.

(4)

Every Productivity Committee shall appoint a

Secretary to its Committee.

(5)

Upon identification of the paddy lands from which sufficient production can be obtained by cultivating other agricultural crops, the Commissioner-General may by a notification published in the Gazette declare that the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of section 6 shall cease to apply to such paddy lands.

(6)

The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of section 6

of this Act, shall not apply to any person who cultivates any paddy land in respect of which a Notification has been published under subsection (5).

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Part III

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Part IV

Establishment of Agrarian Tribunals

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Part V

Institutional Structure of Farmers’ Organisations

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Part VI

Agrarian Development Councils

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Part VII

Irrigation Work and the Management of Irrigation Water

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Part VIII

General Provisions

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Schedules