Government Quarters (Recovery of Possession) (Amendment) Law

Government Quarters (Recovery of Possession) (Amendment) Law A LAW TO AMEND THE GOVERNMENT QUARTERS (RECOVERY OF POSSESSION) ACT, NO. 7 OF 1969. BE it enacted by the National State Assembly of the Republic of Sri Lanka as follows: – Short title. 1. This Law may be cited as the Government Quarters (Recovery of Possession) (Amendment) Law, No. 40 of 1974. Replacement of section 5 of Act No. 7. of 1969. 2. Section 5 of the Government Quarters (Recovery of Possession) Act, No. 7 of 1969 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment “) is hereby repealed. and the following new section substituted therefor: – Withdrawal or expansion of quit notice. 5. The Secretary to the Ministry in charge of the subject of public administration may at any stage withdraw any quit notice or suspend its operation for such period as he deems fit.”. Amendment a section 9 of the principal enactment. 3. Section 9 of the principal enactment, as amended by Act No. 3 of 1971, is hereby further amended, by the substitution, for the definition of “competent authority “, of the following new definition: – “competent authority ” means the Secretary to the Ministry in charge of the subject of public administration or any state officer authorized by such Secretary to be a competent authority for the purposes of this Act;’.