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| (1) Whoever, being a person to whom a commission for the survey, partition or sale of any land has been issued, makes any statement which he knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be false in the return made by him to such commission, or inserts in the survey plan or in the plan of partition prepared by him or in his field notes any signs, marks or particulars which he knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be false shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand five hundred rupees, or to imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding eighteen months or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
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| (2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) of this section shall also, by reason of his false return, survey plan, plan of partition, or field notes, be guilty of a contempt of the court which issued the commission referred to in that subsection and may be punished for such contempt in accordance with the provisions of Chapter LXV of the Civil Procedure Code. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts