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- (b) before the end of one year starting the date the removed material was removed under subsection (5),
- the Board may compensate, out of the funds of the Board, the person for the loss of the removed material, less reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Board in storing and selling, destroying or disposing of the removed material.
- (10) Subject to any order to the contrary by the Magistrate’s Court under the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, any removed material deemed forfeited under this section may be disposed of by the Board in any manner that the Board thinks fit.
- (11) To avoid doubt—
- (a) this section does not prohibit the Board from carrying out any works specified in any notice under subsection (2) at the request of a person who has been served with the notice upon an undertaking by that person to pay the costs and expenses in executing the works; and
- (b) any measures taken or work executed under subsection (5) by an authorised officer does not affect any proceedings that may be taken against a person for an offence under subsection (4).”;
- (h) by inserting, immediately after section 24, the following section:
- “Trees and plants encroaching into drainage reserve
- 24A.—(1) Where the Board is satisfied that any tree or plant (whether or not dead or dying) on any premises adjoining a drainage reserve or any part of a drainage reserve is likely, by falling or otherwise—
