(2A) The possession by a manufacturer of a motor vehicle in SRI Lanka for the purposes of sale shall be deemed not to be a contravention of subsection (1) so long as the vehicle remains unsold and is not used on any highway."

' (4) The possession of a motor vehicle by a person (not being a manufacturer or a dealer) by whom the vehicle was imported into sri Lanka shall be deemed not to be a contravention of subsection (1), if, but only if, that person has made application for the registration of that vehicle and while the application is pending, its use is authorized by the Commissioner under section 18A ," ; and

(9) The possession of a motor vehicle under the provisions of the proviso to section 12 (2) shall be deemed not to be a contravention of subsection (1) of this section so long as the vehicle remains under the contract of rental or hiring;".

(1) No motor coach shall be registered unless the person for the time being entitled to the possession of that motor coach is

(2) No person shall be registered as the owner of a motor coach unless that person is the Sri Lanka Central Transport Board or a Regional Transport Board, established under the Transport Board Law, No. 19 of 1978, or the holder of

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub section (2) the Commissioner may register as the owner of a motor coach a person who intends to let out that motor coach to a person who is eligible to be registered under subsection (2)

(1) A motor coach which is to be registered under this Part

(2) A motor vehicle which is to be registered under this Part and

(1) Upon the registration of a motor vehicle* the Commissioner shall

" (7) Within a period of fourteen days after the due settlement of liabilities of a hire-purchase agreement in respect of a motor vehicle, the person who so let that vehicle shall forward to the Commissioner a written application for the deletion from the entry in the register relating to that vehicle of the same of the absolute owner thereof entered under subsection (5). Such application shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee for such deletion .".

(a) forthwith inform the Commissioner in writing of any circumstance or event which affects the accuracy of any entry in the register relating to the motor vehicle and shall at the same time forward or deliver to the Commissioner the certificate of registration of the motor vehicle ; and

(b) where he intends to effect such alteration in a motor vehicle as will change the class under which the vehicle is registered, obtain the prior permission in writing of the Commissioner. ".

" (2) On any change of possession of a motor vehicle, other than a motor coach or lorry, upon a voluntary transfer made by the registered owner a

(3) On any change of possession of a motor coach or lorry upon a voluntary transfer made by the registered owner

(a) by the substitution for paragraph (a) of that subsection, of the following paragraph :

(b) by the substitution for paragraph (e) of that subsection, of the following paragraph ;

(a) by the substitution for paragraphs (b) and (e) thereof, of the following paragraphs :

(b) by the insertion, immediately after paragraph (c) of that subsection, of the following new paragraph :

"(2) Upon the registration of the new owner of a motor vehicle, the Commissioner shall

(3) Upon the registration under this section of the new owner of a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle shall not be used unless a new revenue licence is issued in respect thereof, if the revenue licence has become void under section 39." ; and

"(6) Within a period of fourteen days after the due settlement of liabilities of a hire-purchase agreement in respect of a motor vehicle, the person who so let that vehicle shall forward to the Commissioner a written application for the deletion from the entry in the register relating to that vehicle of the name of the absolute owner thereof entered under subsection (4). Such application shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee for such deletion.".

' (3) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section, no person shall be registered as the temporary owner of a motor coach except with the prior approval of the Commissioner ; and the Commissioner may refuse to grant such approval in any case where he is not in his discretion satisfied that the motor coach will during the essence of the registered owner be used solely for the purposes of the business which the registered owner is Authorized by a permit granted under Part IV to use that motor coach. 'The provisions of subsection (2) of section 4 shall not apply in the case of the lustration under this section of any person its the temporary owner of a motor coach." ; and

(6A) Where the registered owner of a motor vehicle . (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the "absent owner") is absent from Sri Lanka and a person is registered as the temporary owner of that motor vehicle under this section, such temporary owner shall not make a voluntary transfer effecting a change of possession of that motor vehicle without the written consent of the absent owner or of the duly appointed attorney of the absent owner ; and any such transfer made without such written consent shall be null and void.'.

" (2) Regulations may also be made providing for the issue by the Commissioner, whether free of charge or on payment of the prescribed fee, of permits exempting motor vehicles of any class or description from any such requirements where he considers it necessary to do so in the public interest. Such exemption shall be subject to such conditions as may be inserted in such permits relating to the safety or convenience of the public or the prevention of injury to or excessive wear of any highway or any bridge on any highway.

" (3A) The possession by a manufacturer of a motor vehicle in Sri Lanka for the purposes of sale shall be deemed not to be a contravention of subsection (I) so long as the vehicle remains unsold and is not used on any highway. " ; and

" (8) The Commissioner may issue a permit authorizing the removal of any motor vehicle for the purpose of repairs or for the purpose of compliance with any provision of this Act or for any other specified purpose on a specified date from a specified place and the use of that motor vehicle for the purpose of such removal in accordance with a permit so issued shall be deemed not be a contravention of subsection (1).

(9) When the revenue licence for a motor vehicle becomes void under section 39, the possession of that motor vehicle by the owner thereof shall be deemed not be a contravention of subsection (1) if he has applied for a new revenue licence for that motor vehicle and the application has not been finally determined or if he has given notice of a period of non-user under section 37.".

" (1) No omnibus licence shall be issued under this Part except for an omnibus the registered owner of which is the Sri Lanka Central Transport Board or any Regional Transport Board established under the Transport Board Law, No. 19 of 1978, or is the holder of a certificate of eligibility for stage carriage permits for occasional omnibus services." ;

" (1) Every application for a revenue licence (other than a dealer's licence: or visitors temporary licence) for a motor vehicle shall

"(1A) Where in respect of any motor vehicle an application is made for a new revenue licence which is necessary by reason of section 39, there shall be attached to such application a statement of the circumstances which necessitate a new licence and the licence which has been void under that section except where such licence has already been sent to the licensing authority." ; and

" (2) Where application for a revenue licence for a motor vehicle is required under subsection (1) to be made before any day or before the expiry of any period, as the case may be. and there is delay in making the application, the licensing authority may in his discretion, on proof to his satisfaction that the delay is due to any error, accident or misfortune, and, on payment of the full amount of the licence fee which would under this Part have been payable on the licence if it had been issued on an application duly made under that subsection, issue a revenue licence expressed to be in force from the date of such issue ; and in any case where a revenue licence for any motor vehicle has been issued under this subsection, no prosecution shall be instituted against any person for any contravention of section 25 (1) in respect of that vehicle during the period of such delay and where a prosecution has been instituted before the date of such payment the Magistrate skill discharge such person.".

" (3) Where-

(4) No licence fee shall be payable on a revenue licence for a motor vehicle belonging to or exclusively used in the service of the Government of Sri Lanka or belonging to the Government of any foreign state, as the Minister, after reciprocal arrangements in that behalf have been made, may from time to time specify by Notification published in the Gazette or belonging to the representative in Sri Lanka (by whatsoever name, title or designation called) of the Government of any foreign state so specified or the Trade Commissioner or consular officer in Sri Lanka of any such Government or persons on the staff of any such representative or Commissioner or consular officer." ; and

"(5) Where the licence fee for the revenue licence for a motor vehicle is paid to a licensing authority and before that licence is issued a change of possession of that motor vehicle occurs, then, if the new registered owner of that motor vehicle produces a receipt for the payment of that fee and a certificate from the licensing authority has not been issued, no licence fee shall be payable by that registered owner.

(6) Where the amount paid by any person as licence fee for the revenue licence issued to him is less than the full amount payable for that licence, the licensing authority may be notice in writing, require such person to pay on or before the date specified in the notice the sum specified therein, such sum being an amount equal to the difference between the full fee payable for that revenue licence and the fee actually paid for that licence.

(7) Any person who fails to comply with the requirements of a notice given to him under subsection (6) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees, and the court may in addition to any such fine as the court may impose, order that person to pay the sum specified in that notice and such sum may be recovered in the same manner as a fine imposed by that court. ".

(1) In any case where-

Provided that if the registered owner of that omnibus or private coach at any time before the date of expiry of the revenue licence becomes the holder of a stage carriage permit or a private coach permit, as the case may be, which is valid until some date not earlier than the thirty-first day of December of the year in respect of which that licence was issued-, the licensing authority by whom the licence was issued shall, on application made in that behalf by such owner before the date of expiry of the licence and on payment of the amount of fee calculated as hereinafter provided by endorsement under his hand on the licence. extend the period of its validity until the thirty-first day of December aforesaid and accordingly the licence shall continue in force until that date.

(2) Where a revenue licence for an omnibus or private coach issued in respect of any year is, in accordance with subsection (1), due to expire before the thirty-first day of December of that year, the fee payable on that licence shall, save as is otherwise provided in subsection (2) of section 31, be the fee payable under subsection (1) of that section on a yearly licence, reduced by one-twelfth, part for each complete calendar month of the period commencing on the first day of the month succeeding the month in which the licence is due to expire and ending on the thirty-first day of December aforesaid :

Provided that where the period of validity of such a licence is extended under the provisions of subsection (1) until the thirty-first day of December aforesaid, a further fee shall be payable on that licence and the amount of that fee shall be the amount by which the fee payable on a yearly licence under subsection (1) of section 31 exceeds the amount actually paid on that licence at the time of issue thereof.

(1) The licensing authority shall specify In every revenue licence issued by the authority

(2) For the purpose of determining the maximum number of persons or passengers, as the case may be, that may be carried on a private coach or an omnibus

"(1)

" (5A) Where a person has not specified the period of non-user in any notice given under subsection (1) but, within fourteen days after the date of giving that notice, specifies that period in writing, he shall be deemed to have specified that period in that notice.".

(a) be displaced oil the front of the motor vehicle and placed in a conspicuous position on the left or near side of the motor vehicle, so that the front of the licence and the. writing thereon shall be clearly visible at all times to a person standing in front of the motor vehicle on the left or near side thereof ; and

(b) be made available for inspection on demand made by a police officer, Gram Siva Niladhari, or examiner, of by any person authorized in writing by the Commissioner or the licensing authority :

Provided, however, that the revenue licence shall be removed from the vehicle and produced when required by a court or the Commissioner for endorsement or retention.",

(1) The revenue licence for any motor vehicle shall become void if that motor vehicle is so altered that it is converted into a motor vehicle requiring a revenue licence

(2) The revenue licence for any motor vehicle shall become void on the date of the coming into force of a new revenue licence issued for that motor vehicle in order to authorize the use of that motor vehicle for a purpose not authorized by the first- mentioned revenue licence.

(3) A revenue licence to which subsection (4) of section 31 applies shall become void if in consequence of a change of possession of the motor vehicle for which that revenue licence has been issued, the said subsection ceases to apply to that revenue licence.

(4) A new revenue licence

(1) The holder of a revenue licence may surrender it for cancellation to the licensing authority who issued it.

(2) Where, while the revenue licence for a motor vehicle is in force, the registration of that motor vehicle is cancelled under section 18, the holder of that revenue licence may surrender it for cancellation to the licensing authority who issued it.

(3) Where a revenue licence

the licensing authority who issued that revenue licence may in writing order the holder of that revenue licence to surrender it to him for cancellation.

(4) Where it is necessary to make any alteration in a revenue licence, the licensing authority who issued that revenue licence, may in writing order the holder of that revenue licence to return such licence to him for the purpose of making that alteration.

(5) The holder of a revenue licence in respect of whom an order under subsection (3) or subsection (4) is made shall con ply with that order within fourteen days after it is communicated to him.

(6) Where a revenue licence-

the licensing authority to whom the revenue licence is surrendered or who issues the new revenue licence for the replaced revenue licence shall cancel by endorsement thereon under his hand the surrendered or the replaced revenue licence.

(1) Where a new revenue licence which is necessary by reason of section 37 (l)is issued for any motor vehicle the person to whom the revenue licence which is replaced by the new revenue licence was issued shall be entitled to obtain from the licensing authority who issued the replaced revenue licence, a refund, subject to the deduction of a sum of five rupees of one-twelfth part of the duty, paid by that person for the replaced revenue licence, in respect of each complete calendar month of the period commencing on the first day of the month succeeding the month in which the replaced revenue licence became void and ending on the thirty-first day of December next following,

(2) Where the holder of a revenue licence for a motor vehicle, other than a revenue licence replaced by a new revenue licence which is necessary by reason of section 37, surrenders it for cancellation to the licensing authority who issued it, he shall be entitled to obtain from that licensing authority a refund, subject 1o the deduction of a sum of five rupees, of one-twelfth part of the duty paid by that person for the surrendered revenue licence, in respect of each complete calendar month of the period commencing on the first day of the month succeeding the month in which the licence is surrendered and ending on the thirty-first day of December next following.

(3) If any person who has paid to a licensing authority the licence fee for a revenue licence for a motor vehicle satisfies the licensing authority at any time before the issue of the revenue licence that such person is not required under this Act to obtain such licence, he shall be entitled to a refund of that fee from that licensing authority.

(4) Where an applicant for a revenue licence pays to a licensing authority in revenue stamps, money or otherwise as the licence fee for that licence any sum in excess of that fee, he shall be entitled to obtain a refund of such excess from that licensing authority. ".

(a) for participation in a motor sports meet approved by one Commissioner, or

(b) for the purpose of being used by the owner of that vehicle during a visit to Sri Lanka,

(a) in the case of a motor vehicle imported at the port of Talaimannar, be exercised by the Government Agent of the administrative district of Mannar or by the Sub-Collector of Customs at Talaimannar ;

(b) in the case of a motor vehicle imported at the port of Trincomalee be exercised by the Government Agent of the administrative district of Trincomalee ; or

(c) in the case of a moor vehicle imported at the port of Galle, be exercised by the Government Agent of the administrative district of Galle.".

(a) authorizing a motor car or a motor tricycle to be used for a specified period for the carriage of samples of goods not exceeding one hundred kilograms in weight ; or

(b) authorizing a motor car or a motor tricycle to be used for a specified period for the carriage of mails or newspapers ; or

(c) authorizing an omnibus to be used, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the permit for the carriage of mails or newspapers.".

(a) a stage carriage permit for an occasional service ; and

(b) a private coach permit.

(a) particulars of the type, or types of the omnibuses proposed to be used under the permit ; and

(b) such other particulars as the Commissioner may require." ; and

" (2) An application for a certificate of eligibility for occasional services may be made by any person carrying on or proposing to carry on the business of carriage of passengers on tours or excursions."; and

(a) that the fares to be charged shall be such as may be specified in the permit;

(b) that the service shall be operated in accordance with a time-table specified in the permit ;

(c) that every omnibus used on the service shall be of a specified type and be maintained at ail times in a fit and serviceable condition ;

(d) that no omnibus shall be used on the service unless a certificate of fitness in respect thereof is in force for the time being ;

(e) that the requirements of any written law with, respect to the time for which drivers or conductors of omnibuses may remain continuously on duty and to their hours of work or rest and to their wages are complied within the case of the drivers and conductors of the omnibuses used under the authority of the permit ;

(f) that the speed limits prescribed by any written law and applicable in the case of omnibuses shall be observed in the operation of the service.".

(a) the procedure on applications for, and the determination of, questions in connexion with the grant, suspension and revocation of stage carriage permit!, the fees payable in respect of such applications and permits, and the manner in which such fees shall be payable;";

"(f) the records to be kept in respect of the journeys performed by omnibuses ;".

(a) motor coaches,

(b) lorries, and, in addition, motor ambulances, and motor hearses,

(c) motor tricycle vans,

(d) steam-driven motor vehicles,

(e) motor cars,

(f) motor tricycles,

(g) motor cycles,

(h) invalid carriages,

(i) hand tractors,

(j) land vehicles,

(k) motor vehicles not herein before specified and subdivisions of motor vehicles hereinbefore specified.".

(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2)-

(2) For the purpose of learning or being permitted to drive a motor vehicle, a person, notwithstanding that he is not the holder of a driving licence, may

(a) that he has computed the age of twenty-one years ;

(b) that be possesses, an adequate practical knowledge of the mechanism of a motor vehicle;

(c) that he possesses such educational or other qualifications as may be prescribed ;

(d) that he is physically fit to drive vehicles of the classes referred to in this Part, and that his application is supported by a certificate from a medical practitioner registered under section 32 of the Medical Ordinance ; and

(e) that he possesses such physical requirements as may be prescribed. ".

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub- sections (2) and (3), every driving licence issued under this Part shall be valid for such period as may be prescribed, and every such driving licence may be renewed for such period or periods, upon the payment of such fee, as may be prescribed.

(2) A driving licence which is cancelled under the succeeding provisions of this Part shall cease to be effective on the date of cancellation thereof.

(3) A driving licence which is suspended for any period under the succeeding provisions of this Pail shall not be effective during the period of such suspension. ",

(1) No driving licence shall be valid for a motor coach, lorry or motor tricycle van unless the licence is, by entry made thereon under the hind of the Commissioner, expressed to be valid for motor coaches, lorries or motor tricycle vans, as the case may be.

(2) No driving licence shall, under sub- section (1), be expressed to be valid for motor coaches lorries or motor tricycle vans unless the Commissioner is satisfied that the applicant for the licence or the holder thereof, as the case may be. has attained the age of twenty-one years.

(3) Where the Commissioner is satisfied that an applicant for, or the holder of, a driving licence is unfit to drive a motor coach, lorry or motor tricycle van by reason of the fact that he habitually in a riotous of disorderly manner or is habitually drunk or suffers from any disease of an infectious or contagious nature, or that such holder is unfit to drive any such vehicle by reason of the fact that ha is a registered criminal within the meaning of the Prevention of Crimes Ordinance

(4) Where a driving licence is cancelled or suspended or the validity of a driving licence is restricted, the holder of the driving licence shall forthwith surrender such licence to the Commissioner for necessary action.

(5) Where any court under any written law convicts the holder of a driving licence, which is valid for any particular class of motor vehicles, of any offence which shows him to be unfit to drive a vehicle of that class, the court may, in addition to any other punishment which it may lawfully impose for that offence, order the licence to be produced to the court before the expiry of a period of five days from the date of the order and cancel the licence :

Provided that in any case where the court has not. after the conviction of such holder, considered the fitness of such holder to drive a vehicle of that class, the Commissioner or a police officer of the rank of a sergeant or above may at any time make representatives to the court that the holder is unfit to drive a vehicle of that class and the court may, if it thinks 8t, cancel the licence :

And provided further that where the licence is not produced in compliance with such order, the court may make order disqualifying the holder of the licence from driving any motor vehicle until the production of the licence to the court.

(6) Where any entry made under subsection (1) on any driving licence is cancelled under subsection (3) or subsection (5) the Commissioner may, on application made by the holder of that licence in accordance with the provisions of section 128 (1) at any time after the expiry of two years from the date of such cancellation, make a fresh entry on that licence under subsection (!) of that section.".

(1) Where the holder of a driving licence is convicted of any offence set out in Column I of the First Schedule to this Act and the court does not suspend or cancel the driving licence of such holder, the court may

(2) Where the holder of a driving licence accumulates within the prescribed period such prescribed number of demerits points as would render such driving licence subject to cancellation or suspension by the Commissioner, the Commissioner shall cancel or suspend the driving licence, as the case may be.

(3) Where any court under subsection (1) enters demerit points on any driving licence, the court shall forward to the Commissioner a copy of the entry made on the licence.

(4) Immediately upon the suspension or cancellation of a driving licence under subsection (2) the accumulated demerit points shall be deleted.".

" (2) The driving test referred to in subsection (1) shall be performed and the certificate shall be issued free of charge." ; and

(1) A motor coach or a lorry shall not be driven-

(2) A land vehicle shall not be driven on any highway at a greater speed than twenty-four kilometers per hour.

(3) A motor tricycle or a motor tricycle, van, shall not be driven on any highway at a greater speed than thirty-two kilometers per hour,

(4) A motor vehicle of any, class or description to which subsections (1). (2) and (3) does not apply shall not be driven

No statutory provision imposing a speed limit on motor vehicles shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire ambulance or police purposes if the of those provisions would be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used On that occasion ".

" (1) Regulations may be made, as respects all highways or the highways in any specified area or any specified highway or part of a highway, prescribing for all motor vehicles or any specified class or description of motor vehicles or any specified motor vehicles, speed limits more stringent than, or in excess of, the limits set out in section 140." ; and

(1) Regulations may be made

(2) No motor vehicle of any class or description specified in subsection (I) shall be used on any highway outside Colombo, unless such highway has been declared by regulations under that subsection to be suitable for use by that class or description of motor vehicles, or otherwise than in accordance with such conditions or restrictions as may be prescribed by that regulation ;

Provided, however, that any motor vehicle of any class or description specified in subsection (1) may be used on any highway outside Colombo, which is in charge of the Department of Highways or the Irrigation Department or any local authority, and which has not been declared by regulation under that subsection to be suitable for such traffic, if the use of such vehicle on such highway has been authorized by a permit issued by the Director of Highways or the Director of Irrigation or the Mayor of Chairman of the local authority or any officer authorized in that behalf by that Director, Mayor or Chairman, as the case may be, on the ground that such use is necessary-

" (1) A motor vehicle being driven shall be kept to the left or near side of the road. except when such vehicle is overtaking other traffic or turning right;

Provided, however, that on a highway which permits the flow of traffic in the same direction in three or more parallel lanes which are demarcated, vehicles may be driven along two parallel lanes in the same direction except the lane closest to the centre of the road :

Provided further, that vehicles being driven on parallel lanes should not be driven from one parallel lane to another in such a manner as 10 cause obstruction to other traffic":

" (4) A motor vehicle overtaking other traffic shall be kept on the right off side of such other traffic :

Provided, however, that a motor vehicle may pass or overtake a vehicle, or an animal which is being led or driven, on the side which in all the circumstances appears reasonable to be the safe side at that time"; and

"(13) A motor vehicle turning to the right from any highway into any other highway shall, firstly, be positioned for the manoeuvre by being driven, ridden or pushed nearly parallel to the centre of the road. At the same time the driver shall signal his intention to turn right. On reaching the point of turn, which should be close to the centre of the intersection of the two highways he shall proceed to complete the manoeuvre by turning right into fife other highway, having ascertained that his path is clear of on-coming traffic. Where there is any structure at the above-mentioned intersection, the manoeuvre shall be completed keeping such structure on the right of the motor vehicle unless otherwise ordered by & police officer.

(1) Signals given by drivers of motor vehicles shall be

(2) No lights of an intermittent or flashing pattern shall be used either outside or inside a vehicle, other than those mentioned in sub section (1).

(3) In the event of an unexpected failure of the warning device as set out in subsection (I), manual signals as prescribed in the regulations under this Act shall be temporarily employed

(4) The driver of a motor vehicle which has no electrically operated signals shall, before commencing to turn to or change direction towards the left, extend his right arm and hand horizontally straight out from the right or off side with the palm turned to the front and rotate his arm from shoulder in an anti-clockwise direction In the case of electrically operated vehicles such directions would be Seen by operating the left hand indicator.

(5) The driver of a motor vehicle may if he thinks fit

(6) When approaching a police officer on duty at the intersection of two or more highways, the driver of a motor vehicle shall extend his arm, in the direction in which he wishes to proceed, so as to be visible to the police officer or activate the relevant electrically operated signals.

(7) Regulations may be made requiring or authorizing the use of any signals other than those referred to in subsections (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6).",

(1) The driver of a motor vehicle on a highway shall give sufficient warning of the approach or position of the motor vehicle by sounding an efficient instrument whenever such warning is necessary for safety or by flashing the headlamp beams in a dipped position :

Provided, however, that when a motor vehicle is stationary on a highway, no warning instrument affixed to that vehicle shall be operated except for the purpose of preventing an accident or ensuring the safety of the vehicle or its occupants.

(2) No whistle or horn, other than a horn sounding a single note, shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), be sounded on any motor vehicle on any highway within the limits of an urban area.

(3) Regulations may be made prohibiting or restricting the use, for the purposes of sub section (i), of all warning instruments or any specified instrument, in any urban area or specified part thereof during any specified hours of the day.

(4) In any area in respect of which any regulations have been made under subsection (3), no person shall, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), use any warning instrument in contravention of those regulations.".

"(2) Every person who drives or is carried on a motor cycle shall wear securely on his head a protective helmet of a type approved by the Minister.".

(1) The driver of a motor vehicle which is in motion shall not use or permit any person to use and no person in the motor vehicle shall use any amplifying equipment with loudspeaker fitted to or carried in the vehicle:

Provided, however, that an amplifying be used in a motor vehicle which is in motion if the volume of the sound emanating from such equipment is so regulated as to ensure that it is confined within the vehicle and intended for the hearing only of the occupants thereof.

(2) This section shall not apply in the case of any motor vehicle used for naval, military, air force or police purposes or for the purposes of the Department of Posts, the Department of Telecommunications or of any other prescribed department of Government or of the Sri Lanka Central Transport Board or any Regional Transport Board established by the Transport Board Law, No. 19 of 1978, or by the Ceylon Tourist Board or by any motor vehicle transporting tourists, if a permit authorizing the use of amplifying equipment with loudspeaker on such motor vehicle has been issued by the Commissioner.".

"(b) The owner of the motor vehicle, whether or not he was present at the time of the accident, shall on demand by any police officer or Grama Seva Niladhari furnish all information in his possession as to the name, address, description, antecedents and whereabouts of the driver of the vehicle and of every person in the vehicle at the time of the accident, and every such owner who, in compliance with any such demand, gives any information which to his knowledge is false or in any particular misleading, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.",

" (b) by order of the local authority of any area in the case of a highway in charge of that local authority or in the case of a highway in charge of the Department of Highways by order of the Director of Highways :-

(c) by order of the Sri Lanka Central Transport Board or a Regional Transport Board established under the Transport Board Law, No. 19 of 1978, in concurrence with the Department of Highways, local authority and the police for the purpose of indicating

" (4) In any prosecution for a contravention of subsection (3), every traffic sign or notice erected, exhibited or provided on, or so as to be visible from, any highway shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been duly erected or exhibited under subsection (1)." ; and

' (7) In this section "local authority" includes a Village Council and any such board, institution or corporation as is empowered by law to construct and maintain roads and is declared by the Minister by notification published in the Gazette to be a local authority for the purposes of this section.'.

' (7) In this section " local authority" includes a Village Council and any such board, institution or corporation as is empowered by law to construct and maintain roads and is declared by the Minister by notification published in the Gazette to be a local authority for the purposes of this section.".

(1) No person shall drive, or cause or permit any person employed by him or subject to his orders to drive, any motor tricycle van or motor coach or lorry

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), any two or more periods of time shall be deemed to be a continuous period, unless separated by an interval of not less than half an hour in which the driver is able to obtain rest and refreshment.",

" (1) The local authority for any urban area may provide one or more public stands within that area for the use of motor tricycle vans, omnibuses or lorries, or any specified class or description of motor tricycle vans, omnibuses or lorries. " ; and

(1) Where any person who is liable to pay any sum not exceeding twenty rupees justly due from him as the fare for a journey on any omnibus or claimed from him as damages for any injury willfully caused by him to any omnibus during any such journey, fails or refuses to pay such sum on demand made by the owner of the omnibus, or any servant or agent authorized by the owner to receive such sum, the Magistrate's Court having jurisdiction over the place at which the journey began or ended or at which the injury occurred may, upon complaint made by the owner thereof, and upon summary proof of the facts alleged in that complaint, order such person to pay to the owner the sum so due as fare or such sum as damages for the injury and such costs and such compensation for loss of time incurred by the owner, driver or conductor of the omnibus in attending court, as the court may determine ; and every sum ordered to be paid under this section shall be recoverable in like manner as a fine imposed by the court notwithstanding that it may exceed the amount of the fine which the court may in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction impose.

(2) Any person dissatisfied with an order made by a Magistrate's Court under this section may prefer an appeal to the Court of Appeal in like manner as if the order was a final order pronounced by a Magistrate's Court in a criminal case or matter, and Chapter XXVIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to such appeal.

(1) Where the number of persons found at any time in a private coach on a highway exceeds the maximum number specified in the revenue licence for that private coach or where goods other than such goods as may be prescribed or the personal luggage of a person are found in a motor car or private coach on a highway, the driver thereof shall be guilty of an offence under this Act :

Provided, however, that the preceding provisions of this subsection shall not apply in relation to the carriage of persons in any private coach on any day specified by the Minister by Order published in the Gazette if the coach is used on that day in an area and for a purpose so specified.

(2) Where the number of persons found at any time in a motor car on a highway exceeds nine (including the driver thereof) the driver thereof shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

(3) For the purposes of this section

(4) Regulations may be made defining the nature, description or weight of articles or packages which may be carried in motor cars and private coaches as personal luggage, and of goods other than personal luggage, which may be carried in motor cars and private coaches.

(5) Where any motor car, motor tricycle or private coach is authored by permit issued under section 45 to be used for the carriage of articles of any description, no person shall be deemed to have contravened any provision of this section by reason only of the carriage on the motor car. motor tricycle or private coach of articles of that description.

(1) Where the number of passengers found at any time in an omnibus on a highway exceeds the maximum number specified in the is revenue licence for that omnibus, or where other than such goods as may be prescribed or the personal luggage of a passenger are found in an omnibus on a highway, the conductor of the omnibus shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) For the purpose of this section -

(3) Regulation may be made define the nature, description or weight of article or package which may be carried in omnibus as personal luggage and of the goods other than personal luggage which may be carried in omnibus.

(4) Where any omnibus is authorized by permit issued under section 45 to be used for the carriage of articles of any description, no person shall he deemed to have contravened any provision of this section by reason only of the carriage on the omnibus articles of that description.

(1) The owner of every omnibus shall, unless exemption in respect of that omnibus has been granted m accordance with regulations, keep and maintain a register in the prescribed form and shall enter in the register the following particulars in respect of each occasion on which the omnibus is used on a highway -

(2) Every entry made in the register under subsection (1) shall be signed by the driver of the omnibus in respect of which the entry is made, and shall also be signed by the conductor.

(3) Every register kept under this section shall be open to inspection on demand made by an examiner or by a police officer.".

" (3) The provisions of subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to an omnibus of the Sri Lanka Central Transport Board or any Regional Transport Board established under the Transport Board Law, No. 19 of 1978, at any time when the omnibus is being used for plying between two fixed places without stopping at any other place for the purpose of picking up or setting down passengers." ;

" (4) Save as is otherwise provided in subsection (3) she conductor of an omnibus shall issue to every passenger on payment of his fare a serially numbered ticket indicating the fare for the journey and either the starting point or destination of such passenger's journey, by name or by number of the fare stage."; and

(a) by the omission of paragraph (c) of that subsection;

(b) by the substitution for paragraph (g) of that subsection, of the following paragraph :

(c) by the substitution for paragraphs (1), (m) and (n) of that subsection, of the following paragraphs:

(d) by the omission of paragraph (p) of that subsection ; and

(e) by the substitution for paragraphs (r) and (s) of that subsection, of the following paragraphs :-"

" (3) No regulation under section 141 or section 142 or section 143 or section 144 shall be made except with the concurrence of the Minister in charge of the subject of Highways.".

(1) Where a derelict motor vehicle is so left on any part of a highway as to cause any obstruction or nuisance, the Commissioner or the licensing authority or the local authority or the police officer in charge of the station concerned may, by notice served either generally or by registered post, require the owner or person in charge of that vehicle to take steps to remove the obstruction or nuisance.

(2) Every owner or person in charge of the vehicle on whom a notice is served under sub section (1), shall comply with the requirements set out therein.

(3) If the owner or person in charge of any derelict motor vehicle cannot for any reason be found or he or the person in charge makes default in complying with any notice served under subsection (1), the Commissioner or the licensing authority or the local authority or the police officer may cause the vehicle to be removed and make such order as may be necessary for its disposal.

(4) No proceedings, civil or criminal, shall be instituted or maintained against the Commissioner or a licensing authority or a local authority or a police officer in respect of any order bona fide made under subsection (3).".

(a) any police officer of a rank of sergeant and above;

(b) any other police officer who is authorized in that behalf by the Inspector-General of Police ; or

(c) any officer who is authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner,

(2) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following subsection

(1) The Commissioner may- upon application in that behalf in the prescribed form made by a garage owned by the State, a Government or Semi-Government or a local body and upon payment of the prescribed fee, by order declare

(2) The Commissioner may, in an order under subsection (1), fix, in relation to each approved garage specified in that order, the maximum number of vehicles which during the course of a year may be examined and certified at that garage.

(1) Upon the production before a competent authority of a motor coach, motor tricycle van, lorry, motor hearse or motor ambulance for the purpose of obtaining in respect thereof the certificate referred to In section 29, that authority shall examine it upon payment of the prescribed fee for such examination and shall in writing certify whether or not it is fit for use. A certificate hat any motor vehicle examined under this section is fit for use is referred to in this Act as a "certificate of fitness".

(2) In issuing a certificate of fitness in respect of any motor vehicle a competent authority may insert therein such conditions relating to the use of that motor vehicle as he may deem necessary" in the interests of public safety.

(3) In certifying that any motor coach, motor tricycle van, lorry, motor hearse or motor ambulance is unfit for use, the competent authority shall state his reasons therefor.

(4) A certificate of fitness in respect of any motor vehicle shall

(5) The registered owner of any motor coach, motor tricycle van, lorry, motor hearse or motor ambulance which is certified after examination under the preceding provisions of this section, to be unfit for use may, on payment of the prescribed fee, appeal to the Commissioner against the issue of that certificate and the decision of the Commissioner on such appeal shall be final.

(6) The certificate of fitness issued in respect of any motor vehicle under this section

(7) In this section, the expression "competent authority" means a certifying officer or an examiner of motor vehicles appointed under this Act or an examiner approved for the purposes of section !95 and this section by the Commissioner.".

'(1) This section shall apply to all motor vehicles of the following classes or descriptions, namely, motor tricycle vans, motor coaches and lorries, and the expression " motor vehicle to which this section applies ", wherever it occurs therein shall be construed accordingly.* ;

" (9) Where the use of a motor vehicle to which this section applies is prohibited by a notice under subsection (5)

(1) An examiner shall at any time, on production if so required of his authority, be entitled to enter and inspect any lorry or motor tricycle van, and for that purpose to stop the lorry or motor tricycle van, and to detain the lorry or motor tricycle van during such time as is reasonably required for the inspection, and may at any time which is reasonable having regard to the circumstances of the case, enter any premises on which he has reason to believe that a lorry or a motor tricycle van is kept. If any person obstructs an examiner in the performance of his duty or where required so to do fails to stop the lorry or motor tricycle van, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

(2) If, on the inspection of a lorry or motor tricycle van under subsection (l)s it appears to the examiner that the lorry or motor tricycle van owing to any defects therein, is, or is likely to become, unfit for service until the defects have been remedied, he may prohibit the use of the lorry or motor tricycle van ;

Provided that, where in the opinion of the examiner, the defects are such as can be remedied within any period not exceeding ten days and are not defects which involve immediate risk to public safety, the prohibition shall not come into operation before the expiration of that period and shall not come into operation upon the expiration of that period if any examiner, being satisfied that the defects have been or are in the course of being remedied, withdraws the prohibition before the expiration of that period.

(3) Where under this section an examiner prohibits the use of a lorry or motor tricycle van as aforesaid, he shall forthwith give notice in the prescribed form of the prohibition to the registered owner of the lorry or motor tricycle van, the person in charge thereof at the time of the inspection, and to the Commissioner. In the case of a prohibition on the ground of such defects as are specified in the proviso to the last foregoing subsection a notice given under this subsection shall specify the period within which the defects can, in the opinion of the examiner, be remedied.

(4) Subject as provided in subsection (2) a prohibition under this section shall become operative as soon as notice thereof has been given either to the registered owner, or to the person in charge of the lorry or motor tricycle van, and shall thereafter continue in force until it is removed in accordance with the provisions hereinafter contained.

(5) A prohibition under this section which has become operative may be removed by any examiner if he is satisfied that the lorry or motor tricycle van is fit for service.

(6) A person aggrieved by the refusal of an examiner to remove a prohibition may make application to the Commissioner to have the lorry or motor tricycle van inspected by an officer authorized in that behalf in writing by the Commissioner, and, where any such application is made, such officer, on the matter being referred to him, shall, if he considers that the lorry or motor tricycle van is fit for service, remove the prohibition.

(7) A person aggrieved by the refusal of an officer authorized by the Commissioner to remove a prohibition may, within the prescribed manner, appeal to the Commissioner, who shall have power to make such order on the appeal as he thinks fit, and any such order shall be binding on such officer.

(8) Where any examiner or an officer authorized by the Commissioner withdraws or removes a prohibition he shall forthwith give notice of the withdrawal or removal to the registered owner of the lorry or motor tricycle van and to the Commissioner.

(9) No person shall use a lorry or motor tricycle van or cause or permit a lorry or motor tricycle van to be used, at any time whilst a prohibition under this section is operative in relation to the lorry or the motor tricycle van.

(10) Any person who is guilty of the offence of contravening the provisions of subsection (9) shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees in the case of a first offence, and in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three months or both such fine and imprisonment.

(1) For the purpose of ascertaining the total laden weight or axle load of any lorry or motor tricycle van, any examiner or police officer not below the rank of sergeant may at any time on the production, if so required of his authority, stop any lorry or motor tricycle van on a. highway and may thereupon take reasonable steps to ascertain the laden weight or axle load of the lorry or motor tricycle van, whether by the use of wheel weighers, weighbridge, or other machine for weighing motor vehicles, and may for that purpose require the person for the time being in charge of the lorry or motor tricycle van to drive it or permit it to be driven to the nearest wheel weigher, weighbridge or other machine for weighing motor vehicles.

(2) For the purpose of ascertaining the number of persons or passengers, as the case may be, carried in any motor vehicle, an authorized officer may. on the production if so required of his authority, stop that vehicle on any highway and may thereupon take all reasonable steps as may be necessary for that purpose.

(3) Where any lorry or motor tricycle van is weighed for the purposes of subsection (1), it shall be the duty of every person on that lorry or motor tricycle van, if required so to do, to alight from the lorry or motor tricycle van before it is, weighed.

(4) Where any lorry or motor tricycle van is weighed laden under subsection (1) the amount of the difference between the weight of lorry or motor tricycle van when laden and the tare of the lorry or motor tricycle van as specified in the licence for the time being in force- therefor shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to be the weight of the goods carried thereon.

(5) The preceding provisions of this section shall apply in relation to a certifying officer and a police officer as they apply to an examiner except that it shall not be necessary for a police officer in uniform to produce any authority.

(1) An examiner or police officer not carried is below the rank of sergeant may at any time, on lorries or motor production if so required of Ms authority, tricycle vans. require the person in charge of any lorry or motor tricycle van to produce, and to permit him to inspect and copy, any document which by or by regulations made under this Act is required to be carried on, or by the driver of, the lorry or motor tricycle van and for that purpose may stop and detain the lorry or motor tricycle van for such time as is required 'or the inspection and copying and, if any person, when required by an examiner or a police officer so to do, fails to produce to the examiner or police officer any such document as aforesaid, or to permit him to inspect or copy any such document, that person shall be guilty of an offence under this act.

(2) The provisions of subsection (i) shall apply in relation to an officer authorized by the Commissioner or a certifying officer or a police officer as they apply in relation to an examiner, except that It shall not be necessary for a police officer in uniform to produce any authority.

(1) Any certifying officer or any examiner shall at any time, on the production if so required of his authority be entitled to enter and inspect my motor coach and for that purpose to slop the motor coach and to detain it during such turn as is required for the inspection, and may at any time which is reasonable having regard to the circumstances of the case, enter any premises on which he has reason to believe that such motor coach is kept. If any person obstructs any such officer or examiner in the performance of his duty or when required so to do fails to stop a motor coach he, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act

(2) It on the inspection of a motor coach under subsection (1), it appears to the certifying officer or examiner that the motor coach owing to any defects therein, is, or is likely to become, unfit for service, until the defects have been remedied, he may prohibit its use on any highway : Provided that, where in the opinion of the certifying officer or examiner, as the case may be, the defects are such as can be remedied within any period nut exceeding forty-eight hours and are nut defects which involve immediately risk to public safety, the prohibition shall not come into operation before the expiration of that period, and shall not come into operation upon the expiration of that period, if any certifying officer or any examiner referred to in subsection (1), being satisfied that the defects have been or are in the course of being remedied, withdraws the prohibition before the expiration of that period.

(3) Where under this section any certifying officer or examiner prohibits the use of a motor coach, he shall forthwith give notice in the prescribed form of the prohibition to the registered owner thereof, to the person in charge thereof at the time of the inspection and to the Commissioner. In the case of a prohibition on the ground of such defects as are specified in the proviso to the last foregoing subsection a notice given under this subsection shall specify the period within which the defects can, in the opinion of the certifying officer or examiner, as the case may be, be remedied-

(4) Subject as provided in subsection (2) a prohibition under this section shall become operative as soon as notice thereof has been given to the registered owner, or to the person in charge of the motor coach in respect of which the prohibition has been imposed and shall thereafter continue in force until it is removed in accordance with the provisions hereinafter contained.

(5) A prohibition under this section which has become operative may be removed by any certifying officer, or any examiner referred to in subsection (1), if he is satisfied that the motor coach in respect of which the prohibition has been, imposed is fit for service.

(6) A person aggrieved by the refusal of any certifying officer or examiner to remove a prohibition under this section may make an application to the Commissioner to have the motor coach in respect of which the prohibition is operative inspected by an officer authorized in that behalf in writing by the Commissioner, and where any such application is made, such officer, on the matter being referred to him, shall, if he considers that it is fit for service, remove the prohibition.

(7) A person aggrieved by the refusal of an officer authorized by the Commissioner to remove a prohibition imposed under this section may, within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner, appeal to the Commissioner who shall have power to make such order on the appeal as he thinks fit, and any such order shall be binding on such officer.

(8) Where any certifying officer, examiner or an officer authorized by the Commissioner withdraws or removes a prohibition under this section, he shall forthwith give notice of the withdrawal or removal to the registered owner of the motor coach to which the prohibition relates and to the Commissioner.

(9) No person shall use a motor coach or cause or permit such motor coach to be used, on a highway at any time whilst a prohibition under this section is operative in respect thereof.

(10) Any person who is guilty of the offence of contravening the provisions of subsection (9) shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees in the case of a first offence, and in the case of a second or sub sequent offence, to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment. ".

" (3) Any power, duty or function of the Commissioner under this Act may be exercised, performed or discharged by any Deputy Commissioner under the directions of the Commissioner or other officer who is authorized so to do by writing under the hand of the Commissioner." ;

"(5) All persons, officers and servants exercising powers or performing duties or discharging functions under this Act shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of the Penal Code.".

"(b) the other powers, duties and functions conferred or imposed on the Commissioner by or under this Act or any other written law." ; and

(a) the Police Department,

(b) the Highways Department,

(c) the Sri Lanka Central Transport Board,

(d) the Ceylon Society for the- Prevention of Accidents,

(e) the Automobile Association of Ceylon,

(f) the Ceylon Tourist Board.

(g) the Local Government Department,

(h) the Colombo Municipal Council ".

(1) Any person who contravenes the provisions of any section set out in Column I of the Second Schedule to this Act or fails to comply with any order, direction, demand, requirement or notice lawfully issued or given under the provisions of any such section, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

(2) Any person who, on detection by a police officer, admits liability for any contravention of the provisions of any section set out in Column [ of the Second Schedule to this Act or the failure to comply with any order, direction, demand requirement or notice lawfully issued, made or given under the provisions of any such section, if he so desires, may, in lieu of prosecution for the offence, make payment of a fine of the amount set out in Column III of that Schedule corresponding to the section specified in Column in respect of which he has admitted liability. Such payment shall be made at any Kachcheri or Post Office and proof of such payment shall, within two weeks of the detection, he forwarded either by personal delivery or registered post to the officer-in-charge oft he police station named by the police officer making the detection."*.

(a) in or in connection with any application.

(b) in or in connection with any application made under Part III or Part IV ; or

(c) in giving any information lawfully demanded or required under this Act or any regulation,

(1) Any person, who

(2) Any person who

shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment.

(3) Any person who issues a certificate of insurance of a certificate of security which he knows to be false in any material particular shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of cither description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

(a) who is guilty of the offence of using any motor vehicle in contravention of any provision of Part III ; or

(b) who is guilty of the offence of failing to comply with any condition attached to a permit granted under such Part,

(1) Where proceedings have been instituted against any person in any Magistrate's Court in respect of any such offence under this Act as may be prescribed and where no accident involving damage to any property or injury to any other person has resulted from, of was occasioned by, the commission of that offence, the court may, notwithstanding anything in the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, to the contrary, issue to the first-mentioned person together with the summons a notice stating that it will not be necessary for such person to appear at the time and place specified in the summons if he on or before the date specified in the notice

(2) The amount to be specified under para graph (b) of subsection (1) in the notice issued to any person under that subsection shall not exceed the amount which the court may lawfully impose as a fine for the offence referred to in the summons issued to that person.

(3) Where a person to whom a notice has been issued by a court under subsection (1) complies with the provisions of the notice, the court shall record a verdict of guilty in relation to the offence specified in the summons issued to that person and sentence him to a fine equivalent to the amount paid by him in accordance with that notice and record that such line was paid by him.

(4) In this section " Magistrate's Court" includes a Municipal Magistrate's Court.'.

(1) Where any court convicts "any person of the offence of possessing of using a motor vehicle in contravention of section 25 (1 ) and a certified is produced signed by the licensing authority and stating the amount of fee due and surcharge, it any the court shall in addition to any other punishment which it may impost for that offence, order a sum equal to that amount to be recovered from that person as though it were a fine imposed by the court and any such sum may be so recovered not with standing that it may exceed the amount of the fine which the court may in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction impose. Every such sum when recovered by the court shall be remitted to the licensing authority and shall be disposed of under this Act by such licensing authority in like manner as the fee payable on a revenue licence for that motor vehicle.

(2) Any person who is dissatisfied with any order made under subsection (1) may, if he appeals against the conviction in consequence of which the order was made, appeal against the order to the Court of Appeal and the pro visions of Chapter XXVIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, shall apply to such appeal.

(3) Where a sum equal to the fee payable on the revenue licence required for any motor vehicle in respect of any year or part of a year and the surcharge, if any, is recovered from any person in pursuance of any order made under subsection (1) or by the Court of Appeal under subsection (2), and hat motor vehicle is fit to be used on a highway and all other requirements of this Act relating to the licensing of motor vehicles have been complied with in respect of that motor vehicle, the licensing authority shall issue a revenue licence for that motor vehicle in respect of that year or part of a year in like manner as if the application for such licence had been duly made under Part III and accompanied by the amount of the fee payable on such licence.

(1) Where in any case reference is made in this Act to a prescribed fee, reference shall be deemed to be made to such of the fees prescribed by regulation as may be appropriate to the case ; and unless otherwise expressly provided by this Act or by regulation made under the Revenue Collection Ordinance every such fee

(2) The Commissioner may authorize an examiner approved under sections 195 and 196 to appropriate the fee paid for the examination of a motor coach, motor tricycle van or lorry.

(3) When an applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle or for a permit under this Act pays the fee for such registration or permit and, for any reason other than failure on the part of the applicant to conform to the requirements of this Act, that motor vehicle is not registered or that permit is not issued, ha shall be entitled to obtain from the Commissioner a refund of the fee paid by him.

(4) Where an applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle or for a permit under this Act pays as the fee for such registration or permit a sum in excess of that fee, he shall be entitled to obtain from the Commissioner a refund of such excess.".

"(2) Every regulation made by the Mousses under subsection (1) shall be published in the Gazette and shall come into force on the date of such publication or on in such later date as may be specified m the regulation."; and

"(3) Every regulation shall as soon as convenient after the publication in the Gazette be brought before Parliament for approval and any regulation which is not so approved shall be deemed to be rescinded as from the date of such disapproval but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder.

(4) The date on which any regulation is deemed to be so rescinded shall be published in the Gazette".

(1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the provisions of this Act shall apply in the case of persons and motor vehicles in the service of the Government of Sri Lanka Provided, however, that the provisions of sections 2, 21 and 25 shall not apply in the case of any motor vehicle ordinarily used by the President or the Prime Minister : And provided further that regulations may, with the concurrence of the Minister in charge of the subject of Defence, be made exempting

(2) For the purposes of facilitating any exercises of the Services, the Minister may, with the concurrence of the Minister in charge of the subject of Defence, by Order

(3) For the purposes of the preceding provisions of this section, the expression exercises of the Services " includes any exercises, man oeuvres, training or movement of the forces of the Republic of Sri Lanka.'.

(a) any mechanically propelled vehicle including a tractor or trailer which is intended or adapted for use on roads but does not include a road-roller or a moped ;

(b) any mechanically propelled vehicle in-intended for use on land in connection with an agricultural or constructional purpose such as leveling, dredging, earth-moving, forestry or any similar operation but does not include a road-roller or a moped;';