6. A person who in a reserved forest-
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| (b) causes any damage by negligence in felling any tree, or cutting or dragging any timber ; |
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| (c) wilfully strips off the bark or leaves from, or girdles, lops, taps, burns or otherwise damages, any tree; (d) poisons water ; |
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| (e) quarries stone, burns lime or charcoal, or collects, or subjects to any manufacturing process, any forest produce ; or |
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| (f) in contravention of any regulations made by the Minister1 pastures cattle, hunts, shoots, fishes, or sets traps or snares or guns, or constructs or uses ambushes, or uses any explosive substance, |
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shall be guilty of an offence, and be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, or, when the damage resulting from his offence amounts to more than twenty-five rupees, to double the amount of such damage. |
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts