20. Section 30 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :- -
| (1) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection :
| | " (1) Every application for a revenue licence (other than a dealer's licence: or visitors temporary licence) for a motor vehicle shall
| | | (a) be made to the licensing authority of the place in which the motor vehicle will usually be kept during the period for which the licence is required ; |
| (b) be substantially in such one of the prescribed forms, as may be appropriate to the case, and shall sol out all particulars relating to that motor vehicle in respect of such of the matters specified in that form as may be applicable to that motor vehicle ; |
| (c) be signed by the registered owner of the motor vehicle ; |
| (d) except in the case of a motor vehicle registered in the name of the Sri Lanka Central Transport Board or any Regional Transport Board established under the Transport Board Law, No. 19 of 1978 be accompanied by the licence fee under section 31 ; |
| (e) be made on or before the thirty-first day of December in the year preceding the year for which the licence is required ; and |
| (f) be accompanied by the previous years' licence: |
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| (2) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection :
| | "(1A) Where in respect of any motor vehicle an application is made for a new revenue licence which is necessary by reason of section 39, there shall be attached to such application a statement of the circumstances which necessitate a new licence and the licence which has been void under that section except where such licence has already been sent to the licensing authority." ; and | | |
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| (3) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection :
| | " (2) Where application for a revenue licence for a motor vehicle is required under subsection (1) to be made before any day or before the expiry of any period, as the case may be. and there is delay in making the application, the licensing authority may in his discretion, on proof to his satisfaction that the delay is due to any error, accident or misfortune, and, on payment of the full amount of the licence fee which would under this Part have been payable on the licence if it had been issued on an application duly made under that subsection, issue a revenue licence expressed to be in force from the date of such issue ; and in any case where a revenue licence for any motor vehicle has been issued under this subsection, no prosecution shall be instituted against any person for any contravention of section 25 (1) in respect of that vehicle during the period of such delay and where a prosecution has been instituted before the date of such payment the Magistrate skill discharge such person.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts