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| (1) Every contract, agreement or other document, whatsoever, made, issued or executed prior to the appointed date by or in favour of a Government Agent of an Administrative District and subsisting on such date shall be deemed with effect from that date to have been made, issued or executed by, or in favour of, the Divisional Secretary of the Division to which that contract, agreement or other instrument or document relates. |
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| (2) All actions and proceedings instituted by or against a Government Agent or the Attorney-General as representing a Government Agent, and pending on the day preceding the appointed date, shall, with effect from the appointed date, be deemed to be actions and proceedings instituted by or against the Attorney-General as representing the State and may be continued accordingly. |
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| (3) All decrees and awards relating to the payment of money entered or made by any court or tribunal in any action or proceeding instituted by or against a Government Agent or the Attorney-General as representing a Government Agent, and remaining unsatisfied on the day preceding the appointed date, shall be deemed with effect from the appointed date, to be decrees or awards entered or -node for or against the Attorney-General as representing the State and may be enforced accordingly. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts