Section 8: Offences

8. Offences (1) Any person who carries on the development of any land which is the subject of an Order under section 6 without having obtained a permit under section 117 of the Local Government Act, or in breach of a condition attached to the permit, shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 rupees. (2) The Court may, on the application of the Board or of the local authority concerned, order the offender to restore things, as far as practicable and within such time as the Court may fix, to the state in which they were before the unlawful development. (3) The Court may further order that, failing compliance by the offender with any order under subsection (2), the Board or the local authority may carry it out at the offender’s expense. [S. 8 amended by s. 12 (c) of Act 21 of 2006 w.e.f. 1 October 2006; s. 165 (23) (d) of Act 36 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 December 2011.]