15. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 35 and shall have effect as sections 35A and 35B. of the principal enactment:
| 35A. Any person convicted of an offence under section 35 shall if the offence is continued after conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred rupees for each day during which such offence is continued after conviction. |
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| 35B. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 35, it shall be lawful for the Executive Engineer to order either verbally or in writing, any person who is committing or who has committed any act referred to in section 35, to forthwith abate the same, and if such person to whom such order is given shall refuse or neglect to comply with the order within the period specified therein, or if there be any doubt as to the proper person to whom such order should be given, it shall be lawful for the Executive Engineer or any person authorized in writing in that behalf by the Executive Engineer, to enter or cause to enter any house, garden, enclosure or . other premises with such persons, instruments and things as may be necessary and to do or cause to be done therein all such things as may be necessary for such abatement ; and the Executive Engineer may recover the costs incurred in such abatement, in the manner provided in section 33 for the recovery of costs therein mentioned.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts