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| (1) Notwithstanding anything in any other provisions of this Act, where the tenant of any residential premises has ceased to occupy such premises, without reasonable cause, for a continuous period of not less than six months, the landlord of such premises shall be entitled in an action instituted in a court of competent jurisdiction to a decree for the ejectment of such tenant from such premises. |
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| (2) The summons issued to be served on a tenant in an action referred to in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have been duly served on such tenant if the serving officer has affixed one of the duplicates of the summons to a conspicuous part of such premises and if a duplicate of the summons was sent by the court issuing the summons by registered post to the last known address of the tenant. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts