37. Section 258 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor: -
| 256. Whenever the property seized under one writ shall exceed the value of five thousand rupees, the Fiscal, Deputy Fiscal or other officer shall, in addition to the notion herein before required, advertise the sale thereof, enumerating briefly the goods for sale, the nature and situation of the land, and the time and place of the sale, in a local daily newspaper or in such other manner as the court may direct having regard to the value of the property and other relevant circumstances; and no such sale shall take place until it shall have been so advertised once at least twenty days prior to the sale. It shall be lawful to the execution-creditor or debtor to require the publication of such sale to be made in any newspaper to be named by him, and all costs and charges attending such advertisements, particulars of which shall be always given by the Fiscal with his return, shall be paid in advance by the party requiring such publication". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts