65. Section 518 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following new subsection:-
| " (1) When any person shall die leaving a will under or by virtue of which any property in Sri Lanka is in any way affected, any person appoint- ed executor therein may apply to the District Court of the district within which he resides, or within which the testator resided at the time of his death, or within which any land belonging to the testator's estate is situate, to have the will proved and to have probate thereof issued to him; also any person interested, either by virtue of the will or otherwise, in having the property of the testator administered, may apply to such court to have the will proved and to obtain grant to himself of administration of the estate with copy of the will annexed.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts