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2. Right to sue for immovable property including land of a disadvantaged person

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

(1)

If at the time, when the right of any person to sue for the recovery of any immovable property including land shall have accrued, such person was a disadvantaged person, possession of the aforesaid immovable property including land by any other person shall not be taken as giving such other person any entitlement specified in section 3 of the

Prescription Ordinance (Chapter 68) to such immovable property including land by virtue of such possession, so long as the first mentioned person remained a disadvantaged person.

Illustration

‘A’ is a disadvantaged person at the time ‘B’

commences to possess ‘A’s land – Prescription will not begin to run against ‘A’ as long as ‘A’ continued to be a disadvantaged person.

(2)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 13 of the Prescription Ordinance (Chapter 68), the adverse and undisturbed possession for thirty years of any immovable property including land by any person claiming the same, or by those under whom he claims, shall not be taken as conclusive proof of title in the manner provided for by section 3 of the Prescription Ordinance (Chapter 68), where the person against whom the adverse and undisturbed possession is being claimed was a disadvantaged person.

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