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Part IV · Registration as Hydrographic Surveyors or Nautical Cartographers

23. Cancellation or suspension of a registration

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

Where the Office is satisfied that any Hydrographic

Surveyor or a Nautical Cartographer –

(a)

has contravened the provisions of this Act, or any regulation or rule made thereunder;

(b)

has contravened any term or condition of the

Certificate of Registration issued under section 18; or

(c)

has been found guilty of a prescribed act or professional misconduct, after an inquiry held by the Complaint Resolution Committee established by the Office under section 26, the Office shall take steps to suspend the registration of such Hydrographic Surveyor or a Nautical Cartographer issued under section 18 and cause a notice of such suspension be issued forthwith to such Hydrographic

Surveyor or a Nautical Cartographer.

(2)

Any such notice shall specify the grounds on which the decision of the Office is based on, and shall indicate that such Hydrographic Surveyor or the Nautical Cartographer may within a period of one month commencing from the date of receipt of the notice submit to the Office in writing any reason as to why the registration shall not be cancelled.

(3)

Where such Hydrographic Surveyor or the Nautical

Cartographer, as the case may be, fails to submit the reasons within the period of one month or where the Office is not satisfied with the reasons given by the Hydrographic

Surveyor or the Nautical Cartographer, the Office may after due inquiry cancel the registration of such Hydrographic

Surveyor or the Nautical Cartographer as the case may be, and inform such person in writing about such cancellation.

(4)

Where any Hydrographic Surveyor or a Nautical

Cartographer is convicted for an offence under this Act, the

Certificate of Registration issued to such person under section 18 shall –

(a)

where no appeal is preferred against the conviction, be cancelled; or

(b)

where an appeal is preferred in terms of relevant written law, be suspended until the decision of the appellate court to which the appeal is preferred is pronounced.

(5)

Where the registration of a Hydrographic Surveyor or a Nautical Cartographer is cancelled, the name of such person shall be removed from the registers kept under section 38 of this Act.

(6)

Any person whose registration is cancelled under this section shall within fourteen days handover his respective

Certificate of Registration to the Office.

Part V

Appeals

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Part VI

Part vi

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Part VII

General

Read on from Part VII