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This Law provides for the better protection of the foreshore. The law defines the foreshore as the lands within a distance not exceeding one hundred yards from high water mark, as the Minister may prescribe. The Law contains provisions on the prohibition to interfere with the foreshore, on restrictions upon structures on the foreshore. It provides also for the power to prescribe areas in which the erection of buildings is prohibited, and for drains to be covered and extended into the sea. Notwithstanding such provisions, the "district officer" may, in his descretion, grant to any person a permit to interfere with the foreshore (art. 7); under the same article, power to the council of Ministers is given, for prescription of form, conditions, fees, etc., of permits issued under this Law.
