Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 6. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- " competent authority" means any officer appointed as a competent authority for the purposes of this Act by the Minister by notification published in the Gazette; " estate " means any land or group of lands, whether cultivated or uncultivated, which is not less than twenty acres in extent and which forms a separate and distinct property, but does not include any property an application for the transfer of ownership of which has been made under section 11 of the Tea and Rubber Estates (Control of Fragmentation) Act, No. 2 of 1958; " estate bazaar " means a land on which there are contiguous shops or commercial buildings and which abuts on a road belonging to, or passing through, or forming a boundary or part of a boundary of, an estate, and includes such shops or buildings; and "local authority" means any Municipal Council, Urban Council, Town Council or Village Council. |