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4. Amendment of section 9 of the principal enactment

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Section 9 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :—

(1)

by the addition immediately after subsection (2) of that section of the following new subsection—

“(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Coconut Development Act, No. 46 of 1971, an estate of not less than one hundred hectares in extent or a small holding constituted by the division of a coconut estate into lots shall not be registered under such Act unless such division has been made in consequence of a transfer of ownership or a partition of such coconut estate with the prior consent of the

Board and accordance with the conditions, if any, subject to which such consent has been granted.

In this subsection “small holding” means any coconut small holding registered or deemed to have been registered under the provisions of the Coconut

Development Act, No. 46 of 1971.”; and

(2)

in the marginal note to that section, by the substitution for the words “and the Rubber Control

Act.” of the words “the Rubber Control Act and the

Coconut Development Act.”.

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