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| (1) Any officer authorized by the Minister may, by notice (hereafter in this Act referred to as a " notice of claim ") published in the Gazette and in one Sinhala newspaper, Tamil newspaper and English newspaper, declare that such movable or immovable property, other than money, as has been used or is or was intended to be used by the holder of a stage carriage permit for the purpose of providing a regular omnibus service, is required for the purposes of the Ceylon Transport Board. Such property is hereafter in this Act referred to as " notified property ". |
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| (2) Where a notice of claim is published under subsection (1), any officer authorized by the Minister may from time to time, by notice (hereafter in this Act referred to as a " notice of disclaimer ") published in like manner as the notice of claim, disclaim the need, for the purposes of the Ceylon Transport Board, of any property referred to in the notice of claim and specified in the notice of disclaimer. |
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| (3) No person shall alienate to any person other than the Ceylon Transport Board-
| | (a) any property which is specified in a notice of claim and is not disclaimed by a notice of disclaimer, or | | |
| | (b) any rights in respect of that property, | | |
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| (4) Any person shall, if requested by any authorized officer so to do, furnish to such person as shall be specified in the request information with regard to any such matter within his knowledge relating to any movable or immovable property referred to in a notice of claim as shall be so specified. |
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| (5) Any person who fails to furnish the information referred to in subsection (4), or who wilfully withholds all or any part of such information, or who furnishes information knowing such information to be false, or who wilfully or negligently destroys or damages or causes to be destroyed or damaged any notified property shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine. |
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| (6) Regulations may be made under this Act-
| | (a) empowering any person authorized in that behalf by the Ceylon Transport Board to inspect any notified property, and requiring the persons in whose possession or custody such property is to allow and assist the inspection thereof; | | |
| | (b) providing that a report as to the condition of any notified property may be made, and may be subsequently amended, by or under the authority of the Ceylon Transport Board; | | |
| | (c) providing for the service of copies of such report or any amendment thereof on persons having an interest in the property to which the report-relates; | | |
| | (d) requiring persons on whom copies of such report or any amendment thereof have been served to notify the Ceylon Transport Board whether or not they are in agreement with such report or amendment, and, if they are not in agreement, to specify any objections they may have and the grounds of such objections and to produce all documents relied on by them in support of such objections; | | |
| | (e) prohibiting the making of any improvements or alterations to any notified property without the prior approval of the Ceylon Transport Board; and | | |
| | (f) providing for all matters connected with or incidental to the matters aforesaid. | | |
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| (7) For the purposes of this section, the expression " authorized officer " means the chairman of the Ceylon Transport Board or any member or officer of the board authorized in that behalf by the chairman. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts