36. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 78 of the principal enactment and shall have effect as section 78A of that enactment: -
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| | (1) Where default is made in the payment of any contribution of money or other sum due or deemed to Be or a tenant cultivator, such contribution or other sum may be recovered by deducting the amount of such contribution or other sum from any moneys due to such person in respect of the purchase of a scheduled agricultural product under the Agricultural Products (Guaranteed Prices and Control of Hulling and Milling) Act, No. 33 of 1961. | | |
| | (2) Where the Government Agent is of opinion that the contribution or other sum due or deemed to be due from a person specified in sub-section (1) cannot be recovered by the means provided in that sub-section, the Government Agent may, by written notice, direct such person to pay the amount of such contribution or other sum within such period as shall be specified in such notice. | | |
| | (3) Where a person to whom a written notice under sub-section (2) has been given fails to pay the amount of the contribution or other sum within the period specified in such notice, the Government Agent shall certify to the Rural Court, or where there is no Rural Court, to the Court of Requests, having jurisdiction over the place where the land or irrigation work in respect of which the contribution or other sum was due is situate, that such contribution or other sum is due from that person, and the Court shall thereupon recover such contribution or sum as a debt due from such person to the Government Agent, notwithstanding that such amount may exceed the amount which that Court may in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction order to be recovered, and upon, recovery of such contribution or sum shall transmit the same to the Government Agent.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts