Coast Conservation (Amendment) Act 2011 · As enacted
18. Insertion of new section 22A in the principal enactment
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 22 of the principal enactment and shall effect as section 22A of that enactment:—
22A. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Mines and Minerals Act, No. 33 of 1992, the Director-General of the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau shall not issue, in relation to an area lying within the Coastal Zone, a permit under the provisions of this Act, without having obtained the prior consent of the
Director-General, in respect of such issue.
“Application of the Mines and Minerals
Act.
Where the Director-General consents to the grant of a permit by the Director-General of the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau, the
Director-General may require that such conditions as he deems necessary in the circumstances be attached to the permit so granted.
Where, a person to whom a permit is issued by the Director-General of the
Geological Survey and Mines Bureau, fails to comply with the conditions attached to his permit, the Director-General shall notify the
Director-General of the Geological Survey and
Mines Bureau of the same.
On receipt of such notification, the Director-General of the Geological
Survey and Mines Bureau shall issue a direction to the permit holder who has contravened the provisions of the permit, requiring him to forthwith comply with the same within the period to be specified in the direction, or such later date to which period has been extended. Where the permit holder fails to comply with the direction, the Director-General of the Geological
Survey and Mines Bureau shall, after consultation with the Director-General, cancel the permit.
Where a permit is cancelled in terms of subsection (4), the provisions of sections 38, 39 and 40 of the Mines and Minerals
Act, No. 33 of 1992, shall mutatis mutandis apply in respect of such cancellation.”.