14. Section 188 of the principal enactment is hereby further amended as follows :
| (1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section; and |
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| (2) by the addition, immediately after renumbered subsection (1), of the following new subsection:
| | " (2) Where in the opinion of a police officer, any lorry or motor tricycle van on a highway carries goods the weight of which exceeds the maximum load specified on the revenue licence for that lorry or motor tricycle van, or carries goods loaded thereon in such a manner as is in the opinion of such police officer dangerous to any user of the highway such police officer may detain the lorry or motor tricycle van, and
| | | (a) in any case where he is of the opinion that the lorry or motor tricycle van carries goods the weight of which exceeds the maximum load specified on the revenue licence for that lorry or motor tricycle van, remove or cause to be removed any such excess goods or part thereof and take all such necessary steps to ensure the safe custody of such goods until they are returned to the owner of the lorry or motor tricycle van or the owner of the goods ; or |
| (b) in any case where the lorry or motor tricycle van carries goods loaded thereon in such a manner as is dangerous to any user of the highway cause the goods to be re-loaded in such a manner as is not dangerous to the users of the highway. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts