2. Section 7 of the Forest Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as the "principal enactment" ) is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor :-
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| | (1) Any person who
| | | (a) makes any fresh clearing in a reserved forest; or |
| (b) gets fire to a reserved forest, or in contravention of any regulations made by the Minister kindles any fire, or leaves any fire burning in such manner as to endanger the reserved forest or any part thereof; |
| (c) kindles, keeps or carries any fire except at such seasons and in such manner as a forest officer, specially empowered in this behalf, may from time to time notify ; |
| (d) fells, cuts, saws, converts, collects, removes or transports any trees or timber or collects, removes or trans-ports any forest produce or has in his possession custody or control any tree, timber or forest produce; |
| (e) erects a scaffolding or constructs a saw fit; |
| (f) clears or breaks up any land for cultivation or any other purpose or cultivates any land already cleared; |
| (g) erects any building whether permanent or temporary, or occupies any building so erected ; |
| (h) constructs or uses any road constructed by him; or |
| (i) damages, alters, or removes any wall, ditch, embankment, fence, hedge, railing or other boundary mark; |
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| | (2) Any person who abets the commission of any offence specified in subsection (1) or causes any such offence to be committed, shall be guilty of an offence and, shall on conviction be liable to the same punishment as provided in that subsection,". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts