10. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 32 of the principal enactment, and shall have effect as sections 32A and 32B of that enactment :-
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32A. The Authority shall be required to submit annually a report to the Director-General of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, relating to the work performed by the Licensing Officers during the preceding year. |
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| 32B.
| | (1) Where any building or other structure is being used for any activity contrary to the provisions of this Act or the provisions of Part VI of the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Act, No. 2 of 1996, the Director- General or any Licensing Officer authorized in writing by the Director-General in that behalf, may by a written notice, require the person or persons engaged in such activity to cease from carrying on the same, by or before the date specified in the notice, which date however shall not be less than seven days from the date of issue of such notice. | | |
| | (2) Where the person or persons on whom a notice is issued under subsection (1) fails to comply with its requirement within the time specified or within such extended time as may have been granted by the Director-General or the Licensing Officer who issued such notice, the Director-General or such Licensing Officer may make an application to the Magistrate’s Court within whose jurisdiction such building or other structure is situated, to obtain an order for the demolition of such building or other structure. | | |
| | (3) The Magistrate may, after such inquiry as shall be deemed appropriate in the circumstances of the case, make an order for the demolition of the building or other structure in respect of which the application was made. | | |
| | (4) An order under subsection (3) shall be issued to the Fiscal of such Court, who shall forthwith take all necessary steps to execute such order and shall report in writing to the Court the manner in which such order was executed.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts