81. Sections 175 and 176 of the principal enactment are hereby repealed and the following sections substituted therefor :
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| | (1) Where any person who is liable to pay any sum not exceeding twenty rupees justly due from him as the fare for a journey on any omnibus or claimed from him as damages for any injury willfully caused by him to any omnibus during any such journey, fails or refuses to pay such sum on demand made by the owner of the omnibus, or any servant or agent authorized by the owner to receive such sum, the Magistrate's Court having jurisdiction over the place at which the journey began or ended or at which the injury occurred may, upon complaint made by the owner thereof, and upon summary proof of the facts alleged in that complaint, order such person to pay to the owner the sum so due as fare or such sum as damages for the injury and such costs and such compensation for loss of time incurred by the owner, driver or conductor of the omnibus in attending court, as the court may determine ; and every sum ordered to be paid under this section shall be recoverable in like manner as a fine imposed by the court notwithstanding that it may exceed the amount of the fine which the court may in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction impose. | | |
| | (2) Any person dissatisfied with an order made by a Magistrate's Court under this section may prefer an appeal to the Court of Appeal in like manner as if the order was a final order pronounced by a Magistrate's Court in a criminal case or matter, and Chapter XXVIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to such appeal. | | |
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| 176, Regulations may be made providing for the safe custody and redelivery or disposal of property accidentally left by passengers in omnibuses, and prescribing the charges which may be made in respect thereof and the sums which may be paid by way of reward to the finders of such property.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts