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| (1) From and after the coming into operation of this Part of this Act, no person shall sell or deliver any quantity of petrol to any other person unless-
| | (a) such sale or delivery takes place at a retail depot or at the Corporation, and a valid permit is produced by that other person to the vendor in respect of that depot, or to an agent or servant of the Corporation ; and | | |
| | (b) a valid coupon or valid coupons representing that quantity of that product is or are detached by that vendor or that agent or servant from that permit. Nothing in this subsection shall apply to the sale or delivery of petrol to a vendor by the Corporation or an authorized agent of the Corporation. | | |
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| (2) Where any person (in this subsection referred to as the " buyer ") produces to a person working at a retail depot, a permit authorizing the buyer to purchase or obtain petrol and such permit bears an entry to the effect that the buyer is authorized to purchase or obtain petrol for the purposes of a motor vehicle, then, such person working at such retail depot-
| | (a) shall not, except in the case referred to in paragraph (b) of this subsection, deliver such petrol to the buyer otherwise than in the tank of a vehicle; | | |
| | (b) shall, if so required by the buyer, deliver such petrol to the buyer otherwise than in the tank of a vehicle if the permit produced by the buyer authorizes the delivery of petrol in such manner as the buyer may require ; and | | |
| | (c) shall, except in the case referred to in paragraph (b) of this subsection, deliver such petrol to the buyer by pouring or discharging it into the tank of the vehicle which bears, as the distinctive number (in this Act sometimes referred to as the " registered number ") assigned to that vehicle upon its registration under the Motor Traffic Act, the number specified in the permit produced by the buyer as the number of the vehicle for the purpose of which the buyer is authorized to purchase or obtain petrol; | | |
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| (3) 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. |
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| (4) The preceding provisions of this section shall apply in the case of the sale or delivery of any 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