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| (1) Any person authorized in that behalf by the Board may, after giving due notice to the occupier, enter any premises between the hours of eight in the morning and five in the evening for the purpose of inspecting, flushing, repairing or maintaining any sewer, manhole, inspection chamber, gully, ventilating shaft or other appliance connected therewith: |
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| (2) Every person who prevents or attempts to prevent a person authorized as aforesaid from entering any premises or refuses admittance thereto, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction after trial before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees and every person who continues to prevent such entry or to persist in such refusal after a conviction thereof, shall be guilty of a continuing offence and shall on conviction as aforesaid be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five rupees for each day during which the offence is continued. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts