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| (1) No person shall, with effect from the appointed date, erect or construct any unauthorized structure, house, hut, shed or other building on any part of the Coastal Zone. |
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| (2) The Director may, by giving notice to the owner or occupier, as the case may be, by affixing a notice to some conspicuous part of such structure, house, hut, shed or other building, direct such owner or occupier to take down and remove such unauthorized structure, house, hut, shed or other building within such time as the Director may specify in the notice. |
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| (3) Any person aggrieved by any direction of the Director made under subsection (2) may, within three days from the affixing of the notice, appeal therefrom to the Secretary of the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Coast Conservation. The decision of the Secretary on any such appeal shall be final. |
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| (4) Where any such structure, house, hut, shed or other building is not taken down and removed within the time specified in the notice or within such time as may be specified by the Secretary when rejecting the appeal, the Director shall cause the structure, house, hut, shed or other building to be taken down and removed, and the expenses incurred by the Director in doing so, shall be recovered from the owner or the occupier as a debt due to the State. |
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