5. Section 24 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:
| (1) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:
| | ' (1) From and after the date on which this subsection comes into force it shall not be lawful for any person
| | | (a) except under the authority of a licence granted by the Executive Engineer of the division, to erect any building, boundary wall, gateway or any other structure or construct a basement or other underground structure or dig a well, pond or shaft, within a limit (hereinafter referred to as the "building limit") of
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| (b) except under the authority of a licence granted by the Executive Engineer of the division to re erect, or to make any addition to, any building, boundary wall, gateway or any other structure or any basement or other underground structure or any well, pond or shaft within the building limit of any such road: |
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Provided, however, that nothing in the preceding provisions of this subsection shall be deemed to apply to any repairs effected to any building, boundary wall, gateway or any other structure or basement, other underground structure or any well, pond or shaft existing on the date this subsection comes into force, not being repairs to any building, boundary wall or gateway for effecting which a license was necessary prior to the coming into force of this subsection.'; and
| (2) in subsection (2) by the substitution for the expressions "building, boundary wall or gateway ", or " building, wall or gateway " wherever such expressions occur in that subsection of the expressions building, boundary wall, gateway or other structure or any basement or other underground structure or any well, pond or shaft". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts