Thoroughfares (Amendment) Act (No. 9 of 1988)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Insertion of new sections 39A in the principal enactment

19. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 39 and shall have effect as section 39A of the principal enactment:

39A.

(1) The Minister may make regulations for or in respect of all or any of the following matters:

(a) the general specifications to which the construction of any public road or, bridge should conform;

(b) the prevention of ribbon development along public roads;

(d) the maximum load and other related characteristics of vehicles which may be permitted for use on a public road or any class of public road ;

	(2) Every regulation made under subsection (1) shall be published in the Gazette and shall come into operation on the date of such publication or on such later date as may be specified in the regulation.

	(3) Every regulation made under subsection (1) shall as soon as convenient after its publication in the Gazette, be brought before Parliament for approval. Every regulation not so approved shall be deemed to have been rescinded as from the date of such disapproval but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder.

	(4) The date on which any regulation is deemed to be so rescinded shall be published in the Gazette.

	(5) The contravention of any regulation shall be an offence under this Ordinance and shall be punishable with a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees.".