47.
| (1) It shall not be lawful for any person to commence any building. boundary wall, gateway or fence along any thoroughfare within to limits of any Pradeshiya Sabha or to erect any temporary fence or enclosure on any such thoroughfare for the purpose of commencing or repairing any such building, boundary wall or gateway without giving one calendar month's previous notice in writing to the Pradeshiya Sabha. |
|
| (2) Any person neglecting to give the notice prescribed by subsection (1) or to remove any building, boundary wall, gateway or fence erected without such notice when he is required in writing to do so by the Pradeshiya Sabha under this sub-section, shall be guilty of an offence, punishable with a not exceeding hay rupees, and with a further fine not exceeding twenty rupees for each day he suffers or allows such building, boundary wall, gateway or fence to remain after he is required to remove as aforesaid. |
|
| (3) It shall be lawful for the Pradeshiya Sabha to remove or cause to be removed any building, boundary wall, gateway, fence or enclosure, commenced or erected without the notice prescribed by subsection (1) and to recover the costs of such removal in the manner provided in section 59 for the recovery of the costs therein mentioned. |
|
| (4) Nothing herein contained shall .be deemed to deprive my Pradeshiya Sabha of the power, hereinafter conferred on such Pradeshiya Sabha, of removing any such building, boundary wall. gateway, fence, or enclosure, which may subsequently be discovered to be an encroachment on a thoroughfare., notwithstanding that no proceedings may have been taken by the Pradeshiya Sabha on the notice given in respect of such building, boundary wall, gateway, fence or enclosure under subsection (1). |
|
|
Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts