55.
| (1) Every person who uses or causes or suffers to be used any new sewer, gully, bathroom, water-closet, privy, urinal or other sanitary appliance provided in pursuance of this Law without the written permission of the Board, or until the Board has given a certificate that such sewer, gully, bathroom, water-closet, privy, urinal, or other sanitary appliance conforms in all respects to the provisions of this Law and of any regulations made thereunder 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, after conviction thereof, uses or causes or suffers to be used any sanitary appliance aforesaid without obtaining such certificate or permission, 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. |
|
| (2) Any person making such new provision may apply in writing to the Board for such certificate, and thereupon the Board, after such inquiry as it may consider necessary, shall, within fourteen days of the receipt of the application, either grant the certificate, or inform the applicant of its refusal to do so, and of the grounds for such refusal. |
|
|
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts