Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act 2009 · As enacted
36. Amendment of section 133A of the principal enactment
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 135 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :—
in the proviso to subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution for the words, “extension of its validity,” of the words “extension of its validity, replacement, renewal or additional endorsement,”.
by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1), of the following new subsections which shall have effect as subsections (1A), (1B), (1C) and (1D)
thereof :—
“(1A) Any person who fails to carry a valid
Learner’s Permit and Regular Driving Licence including the endorsement form while driving a motor vehicle shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not less than two thousand five hundred rupees and not exceeding five thousand rupees.
Where a driver of a motor vehicle does not possess a valid Learner’s Permit and Regular Driving
Licence a police officer may detain such driver of the motor vehicle until such driver produces a valid
Learner’s Permit and Regular Driving Licence.
Where it is found that such driver does not hold a valid Learner’s Permit and Regular Driving Licence, such driver and owner of the motor vehicle shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not less than three thousand rupees and not exceeding six thousand rupees and to imprisonment of either description for a term of six months:
Provided however that the owner of such motor vehicle shall not be deemed to be guilty of an offence if he proves to the satisfaction of the Court that the vehicle was removed by such driver without his knowledge.
(a) Where the driver of a motor vehicle wilfully refuses to produce the Learner’s Permit and
Regular Driving Licence on demand by a police officer, such police officer may take such driver and the vehicle into custody and produce such driver at the nearest police station for the purpose of investigation.
Any person who wilfully refuses to produce the learner’s permit or regular driving licence or endorsement form on demand by a police officer shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not less than five thousand rupees and not exceeding ten thousand rupees:
Provided however, that no person shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence under this section, if he proves to the satisfaction of the court that his learner’s permit or regular driving licence had at the time of the alleged contravention, been forwarded to the Commissioner-General for an additional endorsement or for an extension of its validity, or for replacement or renewal.
(a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle carrying or possessing a learner’s permit or regular driving licence which is faded, defaced, damaged, or obscure.
Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (a) shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall on conviction be liable to the penalty specified in section 224;” ; and
in subsection (5) of that section, by the substitution for the words, “charged, may specify by endorsement” of the words, “charged, may cause to be specified by endorsement.”.