5. Section 23 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:
| (a) in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution for the words " development project", of the words " development plan or development project " ; |
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| (b) in subsection (4) of that section, by the substitution, for the words " No person other than the Authority ", of the words and figures " Subject to the provisions of subsection (5), no person other than the Authority " ; and |
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| (c) by the addition, at the end of that section, of the following new subsection :
| | " (5) The Authority may delegate to any officer of a local authority, in consultation with that local authority, any of its powers, duties and functions relating to planning within any area declared to be a development area under section 3, and such officer shall exercise, perform or discharge any such power, duty or function so delegated, under the direction, supervision and control of the Authority.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts