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| (1) Notwithstanding anything in section 14, where any person who was engaged, on the day immediately preceding the appointed date, in any development activity within the Coastal Zone, being an activity which was lawful according to the law in force on that date makes, within twenty days of the appointed date, an application for a permit under section 14 in respect of that activity, it shall be lawful for such person to engage in that activity until the determination of that application. |
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| (2) Where an application made by a person referred to in subsection (1) for a permit under section 14 is refused by the Director and such person is compelled, in consequence of such refusal, to abandon any equipment or fixtures used for, or in connection with, the development activity in respect of which that application was made, such person shall be entitled to reasonable compensation for the equipment or fixtures so abandoned. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts