As enacted

Contents

26. Replacement section 124 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Section 124 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:—

124. (1) Every application for a Learners

Permit and Regular Driving Licence shall be made to the Commissioner-General in the prescribed Form, and shall be accompanied by—

(a)

a Medical Certificate from the National

Transport Medical Institute established under the National Transport Medical

Institute Act, No. 25 of 1997 or a medical practitioner registered under the Medical

Ordinance (Chapter 105) and duly

“Application for a

Learners

Permit and

Regular

Driving

Licence.

authorized by the National Transport

Medical Institute or authorized by the

Commissioner-General, which certifies that the applicant is physically fit to drive the class or classes of vehicles in respect of which the application is made ;

(b)

the prescribed levy ;

(c)

two copies of a photograph of the applicant of such size as may be prescribed and taken not earlier than six months prior to the date of the making of the application;

(d)

a declaration made by the applicant in the prescribed Form as to whether or not he is suffering from any disease or mental or physical disability as would be likely to cause his driving to be a source of danger to the public.

(2)

Every applicant for a driving licence valid for motor vehicles belonging to the classes specified in items 1(i), 1(ii), 2, 3 and 8 of the

Schedule to section 122 shall prove to the satisfaction of the Commissioner-General—

(a)

that he has completed the age of eighteen years ; and

(b)

that he has been a learner driver for at least three months from the date he obtained

‘L’

plate from the

Commissioner-General.

(3)

Every applicant for a driving licence valid for motor vehicles belonging to the classes specified in items 4(i), 4(ii), 5, 6(i), 6(ii),

7, 9 and 10 of the Schedule to section 122

shall prove to the satisfaction of the

Commissioner-General that he –

(a)

has completed the age of twenty-one years ;

(b)

has been a learner driver of the class of vehicles in respect of which the application is made for at least three months from the date he obtained ‘L’

plate from the Commissioner-General;

(c)

possesses an adequate practical knowledge of the mechanism of motor vehicles as may be prescribed ;

(d)

possesses such educational and other qualifications as may be prescribed ;

(e)

possesses such physical requirements as may be prescribed ;

(f)

has been in possession of a Regular

Driving Licence valid for motor vehicles belonging to the classes specified in items 2 and 3 of the Schedule to section 122, for a period of not less than two years.”.

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