Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPower of Pradeshiya Sabha to deal with building boundary wall or gateway erected in contravention of law
| 52. If any person erects or re-erects any building, 'boundary wan or gateway, or makes any addition to any building, boundary wall or gateway, within the limits of any Pradeshiya Sabha in contravention of any of the provisions of section 49, the Pradeshiya Sabha shall be entitled to cause such building, boundary wall or gateway, or such addition, to be demolished or removed by any officer or eleventh, and for that purpose the Pradeshiya Sabha shall have the same rights of entry and survey, and shall have the same power of removal, abatement and recovery of costs as are vested by this part in a Pradeshiya Sabha for the purposes of the abatement or removal of any construction or encroachment or supposed obstruction or encroachment upon a thoroughfare, and as the provisions of this Part relating to such obstructions or encroachments, as far as they are applicable, shall apply accordingly with such modifications as may be necessary. |