Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPower of Government Agent to order a definition of boundaries in certain cases
| 26. The Government Agent, in case there is reasonable ground for supposing that any timber for the removal of which a permit is desired has been felled on land which is not private property, may require the person claiming to be the owner of the land on which the timber has been felled to mark or renew the boundaries of the said land in manner provided by the proviso to section 8 of the Definition of Boundaries Ordinance ; and the issue of any pass to remove the timber may be deferred until such requisition has been complied with to the satisfaction of the Government Agent, unless the claimant shall give security to the satisfaction of the forest officer in an amount equal to the value of such timber. |