Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPenalty on abuse of power by Surveyor-General or registered Surveyor
| 17. Where the Surveyor-General or any registered Surveyor authorised in that behalf by the Surveyor-General shall under pretence of performing any duty or exercising any power imposed of conferred on him by this Act abuses his power of uses unnecessary violence or wantonly does any injury or gives uncalled for or vexatious annoyance the Surveyor-General or such surveyor shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate to a fine no exceeding thousand rupees |