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Part VIII · General Provisions

94. Compulsory acquisition of agricultural land

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

Where the Minister certifies by Notification published in the Gazette that it is necessary that any agricultural land specified in the Notification should be acquired for any of the purposes of this Act, that land shall, for the purposes of the application of the Land Acquisition Act, be deemed to be required for a public purpose and may be acquired under that

Act:

Provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in that Act the amount of compensation to be paid for the acquisition of that land under that Act shall be equal to ten times the annual rental value of that land computed in the prescribed manner.