Section 33

Any person who wilfully obliterates, removes or injures any survey-mark, or without reasonable excuse any boundary-mark which has been made or erected by or under the direction of any authorised officer of the Government, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate’s Court to the punishment prescribed by section 434 of the Penal Code [Cap. 224], and may further be required by the Magistrate’s Court to pay 3 times the cost of repairing and replacing the boundary-mark or survey-mark, and of making any survey rendered necessary by the act for which the conviction was had.

The amount mentioned in subsection (1) shall be levied in the manner provided by the Criminal Procedure Code [Cap. 68] for the collection of fines.

If any person committing an offence under this section cannot be detected, the Collector of Land Revenue may give directions for the restoration or repair of any boundary-mark or survey-mark, and may order the cost thereof to be paid by the owners of the adjacent lands in such shares as appear to him proper.