109. Sections 225 and 226 of the principal enactments are hereby repealed and the following sections substituted therefor :
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| | (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. | | |
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| 226. For the purposes of section 60 of the Code of criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, a motor vehicle shall be deemed to he the property of the person who for the time being is the registered owner of that vehicle. " |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts