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| (1) Every employer who has employed a workman on any agricultural land or estate land that vested in the Land Reform Commission by the operation of the Land Reform Law or on any land acquired under the Land Acquisition Act on or after May 29, 1971, and deemed to have been vested in the Land Reform Commission in terms of subsection (1) of section 21 of the Land Reform (Special Provisions) Act, No. 39 of 1981, for a period of not less than five completed years immediately prior to such vesting or such acquisition as the case may be, shall pay to that workman in respect of his services, or in the event of the death of that workman to his heirs, a gratuity computed in accordance with the provisions of this Part, within a period of thirty days of the coming into operation of this Act: |
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| (2) The provisions of subsection (1) shall be deemed to have come into force on August 26, 1972. |
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| (3) The liability imposed on an employer by subsection (1) shall, in the event of the death of the employer on or after August 26, 1972, and before that liability is discharged, be discharged by his legal representative. |
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| (4) The provisions of this Part shall not apply to or in relation to a workman who is an Indian repatriate to whom the provisions of the Emergency (Payment of Gratuities and other Monetary Benefits to Indian Repatriates) Regulations made under section 5 of the Public Security Ordinance applied or the Payment of Gratuities. and other Monetary Benefits to Indian Repatriates, (Special Provisions) Law, No. 34 of 1978, applies, |
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