83. Sections 178, 179 and 180 of the principal enactment are hereby repealed and the following sections substituted therefor :
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| | (1) Where the number of persons found at any time in a private coach on a highway exceeds the maximum number specified in the revenue licence for that private coach or where goods other than such goods as may be prescribed or the personal luggage of a person are found in a motor car or private coach on a highway, the driver thereof shall be guilty of an offence under this Act : | | |
| | (2) Where the number of persons found at any time in a motor car on a highway exceeds nine (including the driver thereof) the driver thereof shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. | | |
| | (3) For the purposes of this section
| | | (a) a child under three years of age not occupying a separate seat in a motor car or private coach shall not be reckoned as a person ; |
| (b) the driver of the car or coach, as the case may be, shall be reckoned as a person ; and |
| (c) two children, being each over three years and under twelve years of age, shall be reckoned as one person. |
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| | (4) Regulations may be made defining the nature, description or weight of articles or packages which may be carried in motor cars and private coaches as personal luggage, and of goods other than personal luggage, which may be carried in motor cars and private coaches. | | |
| | (5) Where any motor car, motor tricycle or private coach is authored by permit issued under section 45 to be used for the carriage of articles of any description, no person shall be deemed to have contravened any provision of this section by reason only of the carriage on the motor car. motor tricycle or private coach of articles of that description. | | |
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| 179.
| | (1) Where the number of passengers found at any time in an omnibus on a highway exceeds the maximum number specified in the is revenue licence for that omnibus, or where other than such goods as may be prescribed or the personal luggage of a passenger are found in an omnibus on a highway, the conductor of the omnibus shall be guilty of an offence. | | |
| | (2) For the purpose of this section -
| | | (a) the following persons shall not be reckoned as passengers:-
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| (b)two children, being each over three years and under twelve years of age shall be reckoned as one passenger. |
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| | (3) Regulation may be made define the nature, description or weight of article or package which may be carried in omnibus as personal luggage and of the goods other than personal luggage which may be carried in omnibus. | | |
| | (4) Where any omnibus is authorized by permit issued under section 45 to be used for the carriage of articles of any description, no person shall he deemed to have contravened any provision of this section by reason only of the carriage on the omnibus articles of that description. | | |
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| 180. Where the driver or conductor of an omnibus or private coach at any time requests any person not to enter the omnibus or coach on the ground that it is at that time carrying the full number of persons or passengers, as the case may be, which may be carried thereon in accordance with the revenue licence therefor, that person shall not enter or attempt to enter the omnibus or coach.'. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts