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| (1) The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 196, and shall have effect as section 196A, of the principal enactment:-
| | 196A. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 196, the yearly examination and certification, prior to the issue of a licence, of such motor vehicle as is referred to in section 29, shall, in the case of a motor vehicle belonging to the Ceylon Transport Board, be carried out by an officer authorized in that behalf by the Board and any certificate of fitness issued by such officer in respect of any such vehicle shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a certificate issued under section 196.". | | |
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| (2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall for all purposes be deemed to have come into operation on the date of the commencement of the Motor Transport Act, No. 48 of 1957. |
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