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| (1) Any passenger in any omnibus, hiring car or ferry of any Regional Transport Board-
shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction by a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred rupees.
| | (a) who evades the payment of the fare due from him. | | |
| | (b) who wilfully refuses or neglects on arriving at his destination, to quit that omnibus hiring car or ferry; | | |
| | (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 ; | | |
| | (d) who spits upon, or wilfully spoils any part of ,such omnibus, hiring car or ferry; | | |
| | (e) who smokes or carries any lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette or article for smoking 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, hiring car or ferry any bottle, liquid or other article or thing likely to annoy persons or to cause damage or injury to any person or property, | | |
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| (2) Any passenger In any omnibus of any Regional Transport Board who-
shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction by a Magistrate, be liable to fine not exceeding one hundred rupees:
| | (a) does not retain with him throughout the journey the ticket that is Issued to him for that journey ; 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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| (3) Any person
shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction by a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
| | (a) who fraudulently uses or allows any other person to use any ticket issued by or under the authority of any Regional Transport Board ; | | |
| | (b) who fraudulently imitates, alters, mutilates, defaces or destroys any such ticket ; | | |
| | (c) who, without authority from such Board, sells, supplies or distributes, offers for sale or supply or distribution, any such ticket; | | |
| | (d) who without such authority prints what purports to be, or is capable of being used as, any such ticket ; | | |
| | (e) who wilfully damages or defaces any omnibus, hiring car or ferry of any Regional Trans port 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, hiring car or ferry or its equipment anything which is calculated to obstruct or interfere with the working of such omnibus, hiring car, or ferry or causes any injury or discomfort to any person, | | |
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| (4) Any officer or servant of the Central Board or any Regional Transport Board who, without authority from the Central Board or the respective Regional Transport Board, as the case may be-
shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction by a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such toe and imprisonment.
| | (a) opens or otherwise tampers or interferes with any machine for the issue of tickets belonging to any Regional Transport Board ; or | | |
| | (b) alters or tampers with any bill or receipt issued by the Central Board or any Regional Transport Board, | | |
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| (5) Any person who travels as a passenger in any omnibus, hiring car or ferry of any Regional Transport Board without having a pass in his possession issued by the respective Regional Trans port Board or without having purchased a ticked, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction by a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees:
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| (6) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Law or any regulation made thereunder for which no other punishment is expressly provided by this Law or the regulations, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction by a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment |
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| (7) Where any person is prosecuted for an offence under this Law or any regulation made thereunder the burden of proving, where relevant, that he had purchased a ticket or that he had a valid pass in his possession shall lie on him. |
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| (8) Any person who attempts to commit an offence under this Law or any regulation made thereunder shall be guilty of that offence. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts