29. Section 154 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor: -
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| | (1) All ships, boats, goods, and other things which shall hare been or shall hereafter be seized as forfeited under this Ordinance, shall be deemed and taken to be condemned, and may be dealt with in the manner directed by law in respect to ships, boats, goods, and other things seized and condemned for breach of such Ordinance, unless the person from whom such ships, boats, goods and other things shall have been seized, or the owner of them, or some person authorized by him, shall, within one month from the date of seizure of the same, give notice in writing to the Collector or other chief officer of customs at the nearest port that he intends to enter a claim to the ship, boat, goods, or other things seized as aforesaid, and shall further give cash security to prosecute such claim before the court having jurisdiction to entertain the same and otherwise to satisfy the judgment of the court and to pay costs in such sum as the Collector or proper officer of customs at the port where or nearest to which the seizure was made shall consider sufficient. If proceedings for the recovery of the ship, boat, goods or other things so claimed be not instituted in the proper court within thirty days from the date of notice and security as aforesaid, the ship, boat, goods, or other things seized shall be deemed to be forfeited, and shall be dealt with accordingly by the Collector or other proper officer of customs. | | |
| | (2) If after the institution of proceedings in the proper court, the claimant shall give cash security to restore the things seized or their value in such sum as the Collector or proper officer of customs at the port where or nearest to which the seizure made shall consider sufficient, the ship, boat, goods or other things seized may, if required, be delivered up to the claimant at the discretion of the Principal Collector of Customs or a Deputy Collector of Customs.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts