72. Section 161 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :
| (1) by the substitution for the word "headman" wherever that ward occurs in that section, of the words ''Gram Siva Niladhari" ; and |
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| (2) by the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (!) of that section, of the following paragraph :-
| | "(b) The owner of the motor vehicle, whether or not he was present at the time of the accident, shall on demand by any police officer or Grama Seva Niladhari furnish all information in his possession as to the name, address, description, antecedents and whereabouts of the driver of the vehicle and of every person in the vehicle at the time of the accident, and every such owner who, in compliance with any such demand, gives any information which to his knowledge is false or in any particular misleading, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.", | | |
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