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| (1) Any person who, within the Pradeshiya Sabha area, operates or causes to be operated any factory which causes pollution so as to endanger or prejudice the health of the neighbourhood shall be guilty of an offence. |
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| (2) Where a Magistrate after summary trial convicts a person of an offence under subsection (1) he shall, depending on the degree of pollution caused by such factory make order-
| | (a) that such person pay a fine, equivalent to twice the fee payable for a licence issued under the provisions of this Act or any by-law made thereunder in respect of the premises on which that factory is situated notwithstanding that such amount exceeds the amount of fine which a Magistrate may impose in the exercise of his ordinary jurisdiction and the amount so recovered shall be paid into the Fund of the Pradeshiya Sabha; or | | |
| | (b) that operations in such factory shall cease. | | |
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