12. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 31, and shall have effect as sections 31A and 31B, of the principal enactment:
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| | (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the First Schedule to the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, every offence under this Act shall be a cognizable offence. | | |
| | (2) The Director and any person authorized by the Director under section 2 (3), shall be deemed to be a peace officer within the meaning of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, to exercise, for the purposes of this Act, any power conferred on a peace officer by that Act. | | |
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| 31B. Any person who, on detection by an officer authorized by the Director, or a police officer, admits liability for any contravention of the provisions of this Act, may in lieu of prosecution for that offence, make payment of a fine of the amount Set out in the Third Schedule to this Act in respect of the offence to which he has admitted liability. Such payment shall be made at any Kachcheri or post office and the receipt in proof of such payment shall, within two weeks of the detection, be forwarded either by personal delivery or by registered post to the enforcement officer of the Department of Private Omnibus Transport or to the officer-in charge of the police station named by the police officer making the detection.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts