6. Section 10 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor: -
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| | (1) On and after the date fixed by order under section 4, no person shall sell or deliver any quantity of petrol to any other person at a retail depot unless-
| | | (i) a valid permit is produced by that other person to the vendor in respect of that depot, and |
| (ii) a valid coupon or valid coupons representing that quantity of petrol is or are detached by that vendor from that permit. |
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| | (2) On and after the date fixed by order under section 4, a person working at a retail depot-
| | | (a) shall not, except in the case referred to in paragraph (b) of this subsection, deliver any petrol to any other person otherwise than in the tank of a vehicle ; |
| (b) shall, if so required by any other person, deliver any petrol to that other person otherwise than in the tank of a vehicle if the permit produced by that other person authorizes the delivery of petrol in such manner as the consumer may require ; and |
| (c) shall, except in the case referred to in paragraph (b) of this subsection, deliver any petrol to any other person by pouring or discharging it into the tank of a vehicle which bears, as the distinctive number (in this Ordinance sometimes referred to as the registered number) assigned to that vehicle upon its registration under the law relating to motor vehicles, the number specified in the permit produced by that other person as the number of the vehicle in respect of which that permit has been issued : |
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| | (3) On and after the date fixed by order under section 4, the vendor in respect of a retail depot shall-
| | | (a) where any petrol is delivered by pouring or discharging it into the tank of a vehicle, enter in ink, on each coupon detached by him from the permit produced for the purpose of taking delivery of the petrol, the number which that vehicle bears as the distinctive number assigned to it upon its registration under the law relating to motor vehicles, and |
| (b) where any petrol is delivered otherwise than in the tank of a vehicle in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (1), enter in ink, on each coupon detached by him from the permit produced for the purpose of taking delivery of the petrol, the serial number of the permit. |
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| | (4) Where at any time at any retail depot any person, other than the vendor in respect of that depot at that time, sells or delivers any petrol to any other person in contravention of any of the preceding provisions of this section, that vendor shall also be guilty of the offence constituted by such contravention. | | |
| | (5) The preceding provisions of this section shall apply in the case of the sale or delivery of petrol at a retail depot to the vendor in respect of that depot or into the tank of any vehicle belonging to that vendor, in like manner as those provisions apply in the case of the sale or delivery of petrol to any other person or into the tank of any vehicle belonging to any other person. ". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts