194. Any person who wilfully or negligently-
| (a) damages or obscures any lighthouse or the lights exhibited therein, or any buoy, beacon or other aid to navigation; |
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| (b) removes, alters, destroys or damages any lightship, buoy, beacon or other aid to navigation, or any cable, wire or other apparatus used in connection therewith; or |
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| (c) rides by, makes fast to, or runs foul of, any lightship, buoy, beacon or other aid to navigation, |
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shall (in addition to the expenses of making good any damage so occasioned) be guilty of an offence and on conviction thereof shall be liable to afine not aeceeding five hundred rupees; and the Court trying the case may (notwithstanding any limitation of its ordinary jurisdiction) make an order for the payment by such person of the expenses of making good any damage occasioned by such contravention, and the sum payable by such person under such order shall be beemed to be a fine imposed by the Court. |
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts