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| (1) Any passenger in any omnibus or hiring car of the Ceylon Transport Board-
| | (a) who evades the payment of the fare due from him; or | | |
| | (b) who wilfully refuses or neglects, on arriving at his destination, to quit that omnibus; or | | |
| | (c) who uses or makes any obscene, indecent or offensive language or gesture, or behaves in any manner likely to annoy or insult any person; or | | |
| | (d) who spits upon or out of, or wilfully soils any part of, such omnibus or hiring car; or | | |
| | (e) who smokes or carries any lighted pipe, cigar or cigarette in any part of such omnibus or hiring car in which a notice prohibiting smoking is exhibited; or | | |
| | (f) who throws out of such omnibus or hiring car any bottle, liquid or other article or thing likely to annoy persons or to cause danger or injury to any person or property, | | |
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| (1A) Any passenger in any omnibus of the Ceylon Transport Board who-
| | (a) does not retain with him throughout the journey the ticket that is issued to him; or | | |
| | (b) fails or refuses to show or surrender such ticket when called upon to do so by the conductor of that omnibus or by any other person authorized by the board in that behalf, | | |
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| (2) Any person-
| | (a) who fraudulently uses or allows any other person to use any ticket issued by or under the authority of the Ceylon Transport Board; or | | |
| | (b) who fraudulently imitates, alters, mutilates, defaces or destroys any such ticket; or | | |
| | (c) who, without authority from such board, sells, supplies or distributes, or offers for sale or supply or distribution, any such ticket; or | | |
| | (d) who, without such authority, prints what purports to be, or is capable of being used as, any such ticket; or | | |
| | (e) who wilfully damages or defaces any omnibus or hiring car of the Ceylon Transport Board or any part of its equipment; or | | |
| | (f) who wilfully does or causes to be done with regard to any part of such omnibus or hiring car or its equipment anything which is calculated to obstruct or interfere with the working of such omnibus or hiring car, or causes any injury or discomfort to any person, | | |
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| (3) Any officer or servant of the Ceylon Transport Board who, without authority from the board-
| | (a) opens, or otherwise tampers or interferes with any machine for the issue of tickets belonging to the board; or | | |
| | (b) alters or tampers with any bill or receipt issued by the board, | | |
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| (3A) Any person who contravenes, or fails to comply with, any provision of this Act or any regulation made thereunder shall be guilty of an offence, and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees, or to both such imprisonment and fine. |
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| (4) Any person who attempts to commit an offence under this Act shall be guilty of that offence. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts