Section 2 Penalty on obstructing survey or removing marks.
If any person shall resist or wilfully obstruct or hinder any surveyor or other person employed or assisting in the execution of any survey under the provisions of this Act, or shall take away or displace, or wilfully deface or destroy, any stone, post, mark, or object which shall be set up and placed for the purposes of any such survey, every person so offending shall F1be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F2twenty poundslevel 1 on the standard scale.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words substituted by Science and Technology Act 1965 (c. 4), Sch. 2
- F2
Words “level 1 on the standard scale” substituted (E.W.S.) for “twenty pounds” by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c.21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G