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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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