29. Insertion of new section 31BB in the principal enactment

The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 31B of the principal enactment and shall have effect as section 31BB, of that enactment :

31BB (1). The provisions of sections 31A and 31B shall mutatis mutandis apply in relation to the mining, collecting, possession, processing, storing, burning and transporting of sea coral within or outside the Coastal Zone.

In any prosecution if the question arises as to whether the article being mined, collected, possessed, processed, stored, burnt and transported was sea coral, then a Certificate under the hand of the Director-General to that effect shall be admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.”.