Land Reform (Special Provisions) Act 1981 · As enacted · Part I · Amendments to the Lanp Reform Law, No 1 of 1972
3. Amendment of section 5 of the 1 principa
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Section 5 of the principal enactment is héreby amended as follows :—
by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section
; and.
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enactment.
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by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1)
of that section, of the following new subsection :-—
‘ (2) Where ary person becomes by reason of marriage or by way of inheritance, or both, the owner of agricultural land in excess of the ceiling on any day after the date of enactment of this sub-section (in this subsection referred to as the
“relevant date”) the provisions of subsection (1)
shall not. apply, and accordingly such person may transfer, by way of sale or otherwise, such excess within a period of two years from the relevant date.
Where such person fails to transfer such excess within such period, such excess shall, at the expira-tion of such period,—
be deemed to vest. in the Commission
; and
be deemed to be held by. that person. under a statutory lease from the Commission. ’.