Section 35, Environment Protection Agency Act, 2008

(1) Subject to this section, licences are not transferable. (2) Where prior to the issue of a licence in respect of a project the ownership, control or management of that project changes, the previous owner and the new owner shall notify the Executive Director in writing within fourteen days of the transfer of ownership, control or management. (3) Upon notification pursuant to subsection (2), the new owner shall be deemed to be the applicant for a licence. (4) Where after the issue of a licence in respect of a project the ownership, control or management of that project changes, the previous owner and the new owner shall notify the Director of the transfer within fourteen days of the the change of ownership, control or management. (5) The Executive Director shall, on due notification and fulfilment of relevant conditions by the new owner endorse the licence and the licence shall be deemed to have been transferred to the new owner upon such endorsement. (6) Any person who, being the previous owner or new owner of a project fails, after a transfer, to notify the Executive Director as required in this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding three million leones in the case of a citizen and one thousand five hundred United States dollars in the case of a non-citizen of Sierra Leone or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or to both the fine and imprisonment and the licence in respect of that project shall be deemed cancelled at the expiration of the fourteen days period.