Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act 2019 · As enacted
2. Amendment of section 123 of Chapter 203
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
Section 123 of the Motor Traffic Act (Chapter 203)
(hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended as follows:—
in subsection (1) of that section-
in paragraph (a) thereof, by the deletion of the word “and”, appearing at the end of that paragraph;
in paragraph (b) thereof, by the insertion of the word “and”, at the end of that paragraph;
by the addition immediately after paragraph (b) thereof, of the following new paragraph:-
“(c) no person shall drive a light vehicle on a road unless he has completed the age of eighteen years and shall not drive a heavy vehicle on a road unless he has completed the age of twenty-one years.”.
in subsection (5) of that section-
by the repeal, in paragraph (a) thereof, of all the words from “to a fine not less than three thousand rupees” to the end of that paragraph and the substitution therefor of the following words:—
“to a fine not less than twenty five thousand rupees and not exceeding thirty thousand rupees and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not less than thirty thousand rupees and not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.”;
by the repeal, in paragraph (b) thereof, of all the words from “to a fine not less than four thousand rupees” to the end of that paragraph and the substitution therefor of the following words:—
“to a fine not less than twenty five thousand rupees and not exceeding thirty thousand rupees and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not less than thirty thousand rupees and not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.”;
by the addition immediately after paragraph (b) thereof, of the following new paragraph which shall have the effect as paragraph (c)
thereof:-
“(c) A person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not less than thirty thousand rupees and not exceeding forty thousand rupees and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not less than forty thousand rupees and not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.”.