18. Section 42 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section, and the substitution therefor, of the following subsection :-
| "(1) Where there is any false or incorrect information in any document furnished to the Ports Authority in regard to any port services or any goods by or on behalf of the consignee, consignor, importer, exporter, shipper, owner of those goods or by or on behalf of any master or owner of any vessel or agent of any such master or owner, the Ports Authority may notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other provisions of this Act, order the consignee, consignor, importer, exporter, shipper, owner of such goods, or the master or owner of any such vessel or an agent of such master or owner, as the case may be, to pay for such service or such goods twice the normal charges made for such service or such goods.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts