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Section 316: Wilful damage to survey or boundary marks is a crime

316.Wilful damage, etc. to survey and boundary marks

Any person who—

(a)wilfully removes, defaces or injures any survey mark or boundary mark which shall have been made or erected by or under the direction of any Government department or in the course of or for the purposes of a Government survey;

(b)being under an obligation to maintain in repair any boundary mark made or erected, as provided in paragraph (a), neglects or refuses to repair it; or

(c)wilfully removes, defaces or injures any survey mark erected by any person authorised or licensed by the Government to conduct survey operations or any mark erected by the holder of, or by an intending applicant for, any lease, licence or right under a written law relating to mines or minerals,

commits a misdemeanour and is liable, on conviction, to a fine of six currency points or to imprisonment for a term of three months, and may further be ordered by the court to pay the cost of repairing or replacing the survey mark or boundary mark and of making any survey rendered necessary by the offender’s act or neglect.

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You must not wilfully remove, deface, or injure any survey or boundary mark that was made or erected by or under the direction of a government departm...

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