The Law provides for the Constitution of the Board of Management of the Urban Development Authority, its functions and main tasks being those of helping out the development of parcels of land by improving or building infrastructures, by implementing the use of urban land, by developing environmental projects.
The Act provides for the validation as per the 6th September 1978of Acts previously promulgated and for some minor text amendments.
Amends: Urban Development Authority Law. (1979)
The Act amends several sections of the Agrarian Services Act 1979, concerning inter alia the procedure of eviction of paddy lands, the nomination of successors to the rights of tenant cultivators, the effects of transfer of rights of tenant cultivators, the payment and recovery of rent, the Agrarian Services Committees, the Cultivation Officers, the purposes for which paddy land may be used.The
Part IIA has been added right after Part II of the principal enactment and it contains provisions for the planning procedures, the institution of a Planning Committee, functions and tasks. Other minor amendments have been inserted in the text of other Sections, dealing mostly in definition of powers of Authority, offences and penalties and other administrative issues.
The Surveyor-General or any of his assistants have the power to demand to any person claiming to be the owner or occupier of lands or premises the production of deeds, documents or instruments upon which such person founds his claim. Said power include also the power of examining such deeds, documents and instruments.
This Act is to provide for the reservation of certain State lands as pasture land. The Minister may by Order published in the Gazette declare any State land to be reserved as pasture land (sect. 2). There are provisions regarding the power of entry and inspection of the Land Commissioner (sect. 7) and offences and penalties under this Act (sect. 9).
By virtue of the powers vested by Section 51 of the Agrarian Development Act No. 46 of 2000, I, M. A. S.
Act No. 58 of 1979 is amended by adding to the end of section 27 the following paragraph: "For the purpose of this subsection, "interest" includes the "ande" rights of a tenant cultivator, the rights of a lessee of such land and the rights of the majority of the co-owners of land held in "thatumaru"". Further amendments are made with respect to sections 29 and 30, on the granting of loans.
Section 127E: when a tree or part of it is potentially damaging a building, the Council Chairman may require that the owner or tenant of the land where that tree is standing on to provide for it being felled whole or in part.
Amends: Urban Councils Ordinance. (1979)
This Act imposes a property tax when there is a transfer of ownership of property to persons who are not citizens of Sri Lanka. They shall be charged from the transferee of such property an amount equivalent to the value of that property (sect. 2). The tax shall be paid to the Registrar of Lands in that district and paid into a Consolidated Fund.