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Motor Traffic (Amendment) Act (No. 21 of 1981) - Sect 11

Amendment of section 15 of the principal enactment

11. Section 15 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :
(1) by the repeal of subsection (3) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection :
' (3) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section, no person shall be registered as the temporary owner of a motor coach except with the prior approval of the Commissioner ; and the Commissioner may refuse to grant such approval in any case where he is not in his discretion satisfied that the motor coach will during the essence of the registered owner be used solely for the purposes of the business which the registered owner is Authorized by a permit granted under Part IV to use that motor coach. 'The provisions of subsection (2) of section 4 shall not apply in the case of the lustration under this section of any person its the temporary owner of a motor coach." ; and
(2) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (6) thereof, of the following new subsection :
(6A) Where the registered owner of a motor vehicle . (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the "absent owner") is absent from Sri Lanka and a person is registered as the temporary owner of that motor vehicle under this section, such temporary owner shall not make a voluntary transfer effecting a change of possession of that motor vehicle without the written consent of the absent owner or of the duly appointed attorney of the absent owner ; and any such transfer made without such written consent shall be null and void.'.


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