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Section 30, The Crown Lands Ordinance, 1960

In forceThe Crown Lands Ordinance, 1960, Sierra Leone

(1) Without prejudice to any remedy which the grantormay have under any other law, where any person without right, title or licence or whose right, title or licence has expired or been forfeited or cancelled, is in occupation of Crown land, the Attorney-General or some person appointed by him in that behalf or the Director of Surveys and lands, may enter a suit in the Supreme Court or in a Magistrate’s Court to recover possession thereof. (2) If upon the hearing of such suit the defendants does not appear, or appears but fails to establish an absolute right to the possession of the land, the Court shall order that the possession of the land sought to be recovered shall be given by the defendant to the plaintiff on behalf of the Crown, either forthwith or on or before such day as the Court shall think fit to appoint, and shall issue such process as may be necessary to carry such order into effect.

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