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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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