Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act 1992

This Act may be cited as the Motor Traffic

(Amendment) Act, No, 44 of 1992.

The following new section is hereby inserted im-mediately after section 124 of the Métor Traffic Act

(Chapter 203) (hereinafter referred to as the “ principal enactment”) and shall have effect as section 214a of that

Act :—

Driving 124a, (1) There shall be established for

Licepte the purposes of this Act, a fund to be called the “Driving Licence Fund” (hereinafter referred to as the “Fund”).

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There .shall be paid into the Fund such part of the prescribed fee recovered under section 124, 126a, 128 or 213, as may ~

There shall be paid out of the Fund, all such sums of money as as may be required to be paid in connection with the issue of driving licence cards.

Any surplus remaining in the Fund may he «:sed for such purposes as may be

The Commissioner shall be responsible for the administration of the Fund.

The accounts of the Fund shall be audited by the Auditor-General. ’.

Section 125 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of that

‘section, of the following subsection :—

“(1) Every driving licence shall be in the prescribed form. Where a driving licence has been issued in the form of @ card, such licence shall be accompanied by an endorsement form of such description as may be pres-cribed, For the purposes of this Act such endorsment form shall constitute a part of the licence which it accompanies, ”.

Section 126 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the substitution for the expression ‘“ subsec-tions (2) and (3) ”, of the expression “subsections (2)

and (3) and section 126a.”.

The following new section is hereby inserted im-mediately after section 126 of the principal enactment and shall have effect as section 126a of that enactment :—

“Replace.

ment of driving licences.

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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act, the

Where an Order under subsection (1) is made, every person who holds a driving licence bearing.a serial number

Every application made under subsec-tion (2) shall be accompanied by—

Where an application is made for the replacement of a driving licence under this section, the Commissioner shall issue to every person who makes such application under subsection (2), a temporary driving licence in the prescribed form. Such-temporary driving licence shall be valid until a driving licence in the form of a card is issued to such person under this section. ”,

Section 128 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section, by the addition at the end of that subsection, of the following proviso :—

“Provided however that the extension of the validity of a driving licence to any other class or classes of motor vehicles shall be by way of issue of a new driving licence

‘in the form of a card covering such class or classes of motor vehicles, ”.

Section 129 of. the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :—

in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution for the words “as the case may be.”, of the words

in subsection (2) of that section, by the substitution for the words “be expressed to be valid for”, of the words “be expressed or issued to be valid for”:

in subsection (6) of that section, by the substitution for the words “ where any entry made” and “such cancellation”, of the words “where any licence issued or any entry made” and “such cancellation, issue a new licence, or”, respectively,

Section 133a of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section, by the addition at the end of that subsection of the following proviso :—

“Provided however that in the case of a driving licence issued in the form of a card, such entry may be made on the endorsement form prescribed under section 125 and.

an entry so made shall for thé purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been made upon such driving licence.”,

Section 136 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (5) of that section by the addition at the end of that subsection, of the following proviso:—

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“Provided however that in the case of a driving licence issued in the form of a card, such endorsement:may be made on the endorsement form prescribed under section

Act, No. 44 of 1992 425 and an endorsement so made shall for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been made upon such driving licence,”,

Section 231 of the principal enactment is hereby Amendment amended in subsection (3) of that section, by the addition ahaa at the end of paragraph (b) of that subsection, of the follow-principal ing proviso :—

enactment.

“Provided that in the case of any duplicate driving licence issued in the form of a card, such endorsements or entries may be made by the: Commissioner on the endorsement form prescribed under section 125. ”.

Mi. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Certain provision contained in the Motor Traffic Act—

licences to

' (@) every driving licence in the form of a card purported

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to be issued on or after May 1, 1989 and before

April 4, 1990, under section 125 of the Motor Traffic

Act; and

every driving licence in the form of a card issued on or after May 1, 1989 and before July 13, 1990, in replacement of a driving licence issued under sec-tion 125 of the Motor Traffic Act, shall be deemed not to have been, or to be invalid by reason only of the fact that such licence has not been issued in the prescribed form or that there was no written law empower-ing the replacement of such licence, and shall be deemed to be a driving licence duly issued or replaced under the pro-visions of the Motor Traffic Act. ~

All fees recovered by the Commissioner in respect of the issue of every such licence referred to in subsection

Every holder of a driving licence issued in the form

In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.

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