21. Section 31 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :-
| (1) by the repeal of subsections (3) and (4) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsections :
| | " (3) Where-
| | | (a) application for a revenue licence for a motor vehicle, in respect of which notice of a period of non-user in any year has been given under section 37, is made under paragraph (i) or paragraph (ii) of the proviso to section 30 (1) and the licensing authority is satisfied that the motor vehicle has not been unlawfully used between the first day of January in that year and the date from which the licence is to be in force ; or |
| (b) application for a revenue licence for any motor vehicle registered for the first time in Sri Lanka on any date during the course of any year, is made under paragraph (iii) of the proviso to section 30 (1), and no notice of a period of non-user in respect of that motor vehicle has been given under section 37 ; of |
| (c) application is made for a new revenue licence which is necessary by reason of section 39 and which is to come into force after the first day of January in any year, the licence fee payable on that licence shall, save as is otherwise provided in subsection (2), be the licence fee payable under subsection (1) on a yearly licence, reduced by one-twelfth part for each complete calendar month of the period commencing on the first day of February in that year and ending on the last day of the month preceding the month in which the licence is to come into force. |
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| | (4) No licence fee shall be payable on a revenue licence for a motor vehicle belonging to or exclusively used in the service of the Government of Sri Lanka or belonging to the Government of any foreign state, as the Minister, after reciprocal arrangements in that behalf have been made, may from time to time specify by Notification published in the Gazette or belonging to the representative in Sri Lanka (by whatsoever name, title or designation called) of the Government of any foreign state so specified or the Trade Commissioner or consular officer in Sri Lanka of any such Government or persons on the staff of any such representative or Commissioner or consular officer." ; and | | |
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| (2) by the addition, at the end of that section, of the following new subsections ;
| | "(5) Where the licence fee for the revenue licence for a motor vehicle is paid to a licensing authority and before that licence is issued a change of possession of that motor vehicle occurs, then, if the new registered owner of that motor vehicle produces a receipt for the payment of that fee and a certificate from the licensing authority has not been issued, no licence fee shall be payable by that registered owner. | | |
| | (6) Where the amount paid by any person as licence fee for the revenue licence issued to him is less than the full amount payable for that licence, the licensing authority may be notice in writing, require such person to pay on or before the date specified in the notice the sum specified therein, such sum being an amount equal to the difference between the full fee payable for that revenue licence and the fee actually paid for that licence. | | |
| | (7) Any person who fails to comply with the requirements of a notice given to him under subsection (6) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees, and the court may in addition to any such fine as the court may impose, order that person to pay the sum specified in that notice and such sum may be recovered in the same manner as a fine imposed by that court. ". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts