Colombo Municipal Council (Differential Rates)
Colombo Municipal Council (Differential Rates)
Colombo Municipal Council (Differential Rates)
AN ACT TO ENABLE THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF COLOMBO TO MAKE AND ASSESS IN RESPECT OF CERTAIN AREAS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF COLOMBO, ANY RATE OR RATES DIFFERING FROM THE RATE OR RATES MADE AND ASSESSED IN RESPECT OF OTHER AREAS WITHIN THE MUNICIPALITY, AND TO REPEAL THE COLOMBO MUNICIPAL COUNCIL (DIFFERENTIAL RATES) ACT (CHAPTER 253).
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Colombo Municipal Council (Differential Rates) Act, No, 23 of 1961.
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Rates in respect of certain areas of the municipality of Colombo. Cap. 252.
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2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any written law, the Municipal Council of Colombo may, in respect of each area within the municipality of Colombo as is specified in the Schedule to this Act, make and assess under section 230 of the Municipal Councils Ordinance with effect from the first day of January, 1960, any rate or rates differing from the rate or rates made and assessed under that section in respect of any other area within that municipality.
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Repeal of Chapter 253.
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3. The Colombo Municipal Council (Differential Bates) Act is hereby repealed.
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1. Such parts of the Pamankada and Kirillapone Wards in the Municipality of Colombo as are bounded as follows: –
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North; By a line drawn from a point at the centre of the confluence of Dehiwela canal with Kirillapone canal north-eastwards along the centre of the said Kirillapone canal to the centre of Kirillapone-Narahenpita road.
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East: By a line drawn from the last-mentioned point southwards along the centre of the Kirillapone-Narahen-pita road to a point in line with the northern boundary of Kirillapone burial ground, thence by a line drawn westwards and southwards across the said road and along the northern and western boundaries of the said burial ground to the centre of the Nugegoda-Kirillapone road, thence by a line drawn westwards along the centre of the said road to the centre of its junction with the Colombo-Avissawelia road, thence by a line drawn south-eastwards along the centre of the said Colombo-Avissawella road to the northern limit of the Dehiwela-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council area.
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South: By a line drawn from the last-mentioned point non-westwards, southwards, and again north-westwards along the northern limit of Dehiwela-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council area to the centre of the Dehiwsla canal.
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West: By a line drawn from the last-mentioned point north-westwards along the centre of the Dehiwela canal to the starting point of northern limit of the area.
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2. Such parts of the Borella South, Timbirigasyaya South, Kirillapone, and Pamankade Wards in the Municipality of Colombo as are bounded as follows: –
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North; By the Mahawatte Ela.
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East: By a stream passing through Eladuwa from thence southwards along the centre of the said stream passing under the culverts on the Nawala road until it meets the centre of the Kirillapone canal, from thence south-eastwards along the centre of the said cenal up to the confluence of the said canal and the stream passing through the grasslands, from thence along the centre of the said stream up to its extremity and from thence along a line drawn south-eastwards and eastwards crossing the Nugegoda road, until it meets the centre of the Kelani Valley Railway.
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South: By a line drawn north-westwards along the centre of the Kelani Valley Railway from the last-mentioned point, up to the centre of the Railway Level Crossing, north of the Nugegoda Hindu Temple, from thence south-westwards along the centre of the road up to a point 155 yards from the culvert passing through the said Level Crossing, from thence along a line drawn south-westwards until it meets the centre of Avissawella road. West: By a line drawn north-westwards from the last-mentioned point along the centre of the Colombo-Avissawella road to its junction with Nugegoda-Kirillapone road thence eastwards along the centre of the Nugegoda-Kirillapone road to the western boundary of Kirillapone burial ground thence north-wards along the western boundary of burial ground and eastward along the northern boundary of the burial ground to the centre line of the Kirillapone-Narahenpitiya road thence northwards along the centre line of the said Kirillapone-Narahenpitiya road till it meets the centre of the Kirillapone canal then eastwards along the centre of the said canal to the railway bridge over Kirillapone canal from then north-ward along the Kelani Valley Railway line to the centre of Mahawatte Ela.
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