Land Acquisition (Amendment

Land Acquisition (Amendment AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAND ACQUISITION ACT. BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Representatives of Ceylon in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: – Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act, No. 20 of 1969. Insertion of new section 51A in Chapter 460. 2. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 51, and shall have effect as section 51A, of the Land Acquisition Act: – ” Certain actions under this Act before any court to be given priority. 51A. (1) Where any decision, declaration or Order to which, this section applies, and any act or thing done under or in consequence of such decision, declaration or Order is called in question in any court whether by way of action, appeal, application in revision or any mandate in the nature of a writ referred to in section 42 of the Courts Ordinance, such court shall give the highest priority to the hearing and disposal of such action, appeal, application or mandate, and for that purpose shall ordinarily hear and dispose of such action, appeal, application or mandate before all other business or cases pending or being heard or disposed of by such court. (2) This section shall apply to any decision made under section 4, any declaration made under section 5, and any Order made under section 38. “.