22. Sections 33, 34, 35 and 36 of the principal enactment are hereby repealed and the following sections are substituted therefor :
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(a) the stage carriage permit under the authority of which an omnibus is used ; or |
| (b) the private coach permit which authorizes the use of any private coach, |
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| | (2) Where a revenue licence for an omnibus or private coach issued in respect of any year is, in accordance with subsection (1), due to expire before the thirty-first day of December of that year, the fee payable on that licence shall, save as is otherwise provided in subsection (2) of section 31, be the fee payable under subsection (1) of that section on a yearly licence, reduced by one-twelfth, part for each complete calendar month of the period commencing on the first day of the month succeeding the month in which the licence is due to expire and ending on the thirty-first day of December aforesaid : | | |
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| 34. Any licensing authority may insert in any revenue licence for a motor coach, lorry or motor tricycle van issued by that authority such conditions as an examiner or other person may, after examination under this Act of such coach, lorry, or motor tricycle van, as the case may be, certify to be necessary in the interests of safety. |
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| 35.
| | (1) The licensing authority shall specify In every revenue licence issued by the authority
| | | (a) for a private coach, the maximum number of persons authorized to be carried in that coach ; and |
| (b) for an omnibus, the maximum number of passengers authorized to be carried in that omnibus. |
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| | (2) For the purpose of determining the maximum number of persons or passengers, as the case may be, that may be carried on a private coach or an omnibus
| | | (a) three hundred and eighty-two millimeters of seating space shall be allowed for each person or passenger, as the case may be ; and |
| (b) due regard shall be had to the safe load of the coach or omnibus which shall be calculated in such manner as the Commissioner may direct, the weight of each person or passenger, as the case may be, being reckoned in that calculation, as fifty kilograms : |
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| 36. The licensing authority shall specify in every licence for a lorry or motor tricycle van issued by that authority the maximum load (that is to say, the pay-load) which may be carried on the lorry or motor tricycle van. For the purpose of determining the maximum load, each person permitted to be carried on the lorry or motor tricycle van shall be deemed to weigh fifty and eight-tenth kilograms.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts