18. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 38 and shall have effect as sections 38A and 38B of the principal enactment:
| 38A. Any person convicted of an offence under section 38 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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| 38B. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 38, it shall be lawful for the Executive Engineer to order either verbally or in writing any person committing or who has committed any act referred to in section 38, 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 peace officer to take all such action as may be necessary to abate such nuisance, including the taking into custody and removal of any animal, vehicle, object or thing which is the cause of, or contributory to, such nuisance and the Executive Engineer may recover the costs incurred thereby .in the manner provided in section 33 for the recovery of costs.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts