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Acts & Ordinances RECOVERY OF POSSESSION OF PREMISES GIVEN ON LEASE ACT Marginal Notes 1. This Act may be cited as the Recovery of Possession of Premises Given on Lease Act, No. 1 of 2023. 2. Action by the lessor to recover possession of a premises given on lease 3. Grounds for institution of action 4. Documents to be filed 5. Entering a decree nisi by the Court 6. Liquidated damages 7. Payment of service charge 8. Service of decree nisi ordinarily to be by registered post 9. Service of decree nisi by a process officer 10. Service of decree nisi on a public officer 11. Date to be specified in the decree nisi for the defendant to apply to the Court for leave to appear 12. Defendant to appear and show cause only upon leave and security 13. Security to be furnished by the defendant 14. Security ordered to be deposited within two weeks 15. Making the decree nisi absolute, by the Court 16. Order making a decree nisi absolute on default not appealable, but may be set aside 17. Procedure where leave to appear and show cause is granted 18. Originals of documents filed to be made available to court for examination 19. Award of compensation 20. Surrender of possession of the premises by the defendant, & c 21. Discharge of a decree nisi or dismissal of an action not to bar any subsequent action 22. Decree absolute deemed to be a writ of execution 23. Resistance deemed to be contempt 24. Change of possession or status quo of the premises by the defendant after institution of action 25. Preferring appeals against an order of the Court 26. Casus omissus 27. Forms 28. Recovery of unsettled utility bills or service charges due as at the time of execution of the decree 29. A special register and special inquiry roll to be maintained 30. Applicability of other laws 31. This Act to be applicable for lease agreements executed prior to the commencement of this Act 32. Actions pending on the date of commencement of this Act 33. Saving other remedies 34. Nonapplicability of the Rent Act 35. Effect of legal representative being made a party 36. Offences by a body of persons 37. Regulations 38. Interpretation 39. Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency