6. Section 9 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) Upon the registration of a motor vehicle* the Commissioner shall
| | | (a) assign to the motor vehicle a number or a combination of one or more letters and one or more numbers or assign a number under a special series of numbers (in this Act referred to as a " distinctive number") ; and |
| (b) register the person by whom the application for registration was made, as the owner of the vehicle ; and |
| (c) enter in the register any conditions he deems necessary to ensure that the requirements of any provision of this Act or any other law are com plied with ; and |
| (d) issue to that person a certificate of registration in the prescribed form.' ;and |
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| (2) by the repeal of subsection (7) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection :
| | " (7) Within a period of fourteen days after the due settlement of liabilities of a hire-purchase agreement in respect of a motor vehicle, the person who so let that vehicle shall forward to the Commissioner a written application for the deletion from the entry in the register relating to that vehicle of the same of the absolute owner thereof entered under subsection (5). Such application shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee for such deletion .". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts