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| (1) Every person, who knowingly or wilfully removes, destroys, or after the position of or markings on any survey mark that has been placed or set up for the control of surveys or definition of boundaries or for the purpose any survey conducted under or for the purposes of this Act or any other written law shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a line not exceeding ten thousand rupees |
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| (2) Every person, who is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) shall, in addition to the fine for which ho may be liable in respect of such offence, be also liable to pay the cost, including survey costs, and cost associated with repairing, replacing, or restoring to its proper position, any survey mark or restoring the markings on any survey mark that is the subject of the of the offence for which he is convicted which costs shall be assessed by the surveyor General and recovered if it were a fine |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts