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Section 18 (2), An Act to amend the Crown Lands Ordinance, 1960

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If such building be begun without such notice having beengiven and, where a plan is required, without such plan having been furnished, or without the approval of the Director of Public Works within the said one month, or otherwise not in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, the owner and builder thereof shall be deemed to have committed an offence and shall for every such offence be liable, upon summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds; and the Director of Public Works may, at any time before or within twelve months next after the completion of the building, make complaint thereof before a Police Magistrate, who, upon being satisfied of the default of such owner or builder, shall order such building to be altered, taken down or demolished as the case may require, and upon failure of the owner or builder within one month from the date of such order to alter, taken down or demolish the building, the Director of Public Works may cause it to be altered, taken down or demolished pursuant to such order, and the expenses, incurred by the Director of Public Works in respect thereof shall be repaid to him by the person failing to comply with the provisions aforesaid, arid shall be recoverable as damages. (2) The Director of Public Works shall be under no liability to any person in consequence of anything done or omitted to be done by him in, accordance with the provisions of this section.

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