12. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 43 and shall have effect as sections 43A and 43B of the principal enactment :-
| 43A.
| | (1) Whenever any development or industrial scheme or project is proposed by the Government or other institution or person entailing the use, encroachment or submergence of any land falling within the inventory prepared under section 40(b) , or any land as may be prescribed, such scheme or project shall not be approved or permitted until after a report is submitted by the Director-General of Archaeology, as to the effects the implementation of such scheme, or project may have upon such land or any antiquities within it. | | |
| | (2) The Director-General of Archaeology shall cause an impact assessment survey to be undertaken at the expense of the sponsors of such project or scheme to assess the consequences thereof upon the antiquarian, historical or archaeological aspects or value of the land in question or on any antiquities upon it and shall, within such period of time as may be agreed on (in any event not later than six weeks from deposit of the cost of such survey with the Director-General of Archaeology), submit to the Minister, his written report recommending, objecting to, or recommending subject to such conditions or alterations as may be specified in the report, the proposed project, or scheme, together with an estimate of any such additional costs as may be necessary for the taking of any measures to protect, preserve, excavate, document and publish, and if necessary relocate, any antiquities upon such land at the expense of the project's sponsors. | | |
| | (3) The sponsors of every such scheme or project as is referred to in this section shall provide for and set apart, a sum not exceeding one per cent of its total cost for the purposes and objectives referred to in this section. | | |
| | (4) The provisions of this section shall have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other law. | | |
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| 43B.
| | (1) Where approval or permission has been granted for any scheme or project subject to any condition or alteration, it shall be the duty of the sponsors to comply with it. Failure to comply with any condition or alteration shall be an offence under this Ordinance and the Director-General of Archaeology may cause such scheme or project to be stopped forthwith. | | |
| | (2) Where a scheme or project has been so stopped, work on such scheme or project shall not be commenced until the condition or alteration subject to which the approval or permission was granted is adequately complied with by the sponsors and a written permission in that behalf is obtained from the Director-General of Archaeology.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts