244.
| (1) If any person, being the owner of any vessel or any wrecked, submerged, sunken or stranded vessel or the agent or servant of such owner, wishes to break up such vessel prior to the removal thereof from Ceylon, such person shall before commencing salvage or breaking up operations, obtain the written permission of a receiver of wrecks. |
|
| (2) On receiving any application for permission for the breaking up of any vessel under this section, a receiver of wrecks shall, in his discretion, be entitled-
| | (a) to grant such permission; and | | |
| | (b) to require security in such reasonable amount as he may consider necessary to ensure the effective removal of the vessel, or any portion thereof, from Ceylon. | | |
|
|
| (3) Any person who, without the previous written permission of a receiver of wrecks, does or causes to be done any salvage or breaking-up operations on any vessel or any wrecked, submerged, sunken or stranded vessel lying within Ceylon shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
|
|
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts