Transport Board Law (No. 19 of 1978)

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Transport Board Law (No. 19 of 1978) - Sect 8

Powers of the Central Board and the Regional Transport Board

(1) The Central Board may exercise all or any of the following powers :-

	(i) to acquire, hold, take or give on lease or hire, mortgage, pledge, and sell or other wise dispose of, any movable or immovable property ;

	(ii) to employ such officers and servants as may be necessary for carrying out the work of the Central Board :

(iii) to do anything for the purpose of advancing the skill of persons employed by the Central Board or the efficiency of the equipment of the Board or the manner in which that equipment is operated including the provision by the Board and the assistance of the provision by others, of facilities for training persons required to carry out the work of the Board and at the request of any Regional Transport Board, to exercise these Powers in respect of the persons employed by that Regional Transport board and the equipment of such Board; that Regional Transport Board and the equipment of such Board ;

	(iv) to establish a provident fund for the persons employed by the Central Board and the persons employed by the Regional Transport Boards ;

	(v) to provide welfare and recreational facilities, houses, hostels and other like accommodation for persons employed by the Central Board;

	(vi) to manufacture, assemble, distribute and sell motor vehicles of every description and to manufacture, distribute and sell spares for motor vehicles of every description ;

	(vii) to construct, manufacture, import, purchase, maintain and repair anything required for the purpose of the business of the Central Board and that of the Regional Transport Boards ;

	(viii) to delegate to any officer of the Central Board any such function of the Board as the Board may consider necessary so to delegate for the efficient transaction of its business;

	(ix) to enter into and perform, directly or though any officer or agent authorized in that behalf, all such contracts as may be necessary for the performance of the duties and the exercise of the powers of the Central Board;

	(x) to make rules in relation to the officers and servants of the Central Board and those of the Regional Transport Boards, including their appointment, promotion, remuneration, disciplinary control, conduct and the grant of leave to them ;

	(xi) to make rules in respect of the administration of the affairs of the central board;

	(xii) to do all things necessary to co-ordinate the activities of the Regional Transport Boards ;

	(xiii) to provide engineering, technical, legal, medical and financial assistance and advice to the Regional Transport Boards and any other assistance or advice that may be required by the Boards for the proper and efficient exercise, performance and discharge of their powers, duties and functions ; and

	(xiv) to do all other things which, in the opinion of the Central Board, are necessary to facilitate the proper carrying on of its business and other activities, or the business and other activities of any Regional Transport Board.

(2) Each Regional Transport Board may exercise all or any of the following powers :-

	(i) to hold, take or give on lease or hire, and with the concurrence of the Central Board, to acquire, mortgage, pledge, and sell or otherwise dispose of, any movable or Immovable property ;

	(ii) to employ such officer and servants as may be necessary for carrying out the work of the Regional Transport Board ;

(iii) to do anything for the purpose of advancing the skill of persons employed by the Regional Transport Board or the efficiency of the equipment of the Board or the manner in which that equipment Is operated, including the provision by the Board and the assistance of the provision. by other , of facilities for training in Sri Lanka and, with the concurrence of the Central Board, outside Sri Lanka, of persons required to carry out the work of the Board ;

	(iv) to provide welfare and recreational facilities, houses, hostels and other like accommodation for persons employed by the Regional Transport Board ;

	(v) to maintain and repair anything required for the purpose of the business of the Regional Transport Board ;

	(vi) to purchase from the Central Board and where it is not possible to do so to purchase within Sri Lanka anything required for the purpose of the business of the Regional Transport Board ;

(vii) to provide regular and occasional omnibus services within its region and inter-regionally and hiring car services on any route either in lieu of such omnibus services where the Regional Transport Board is of opinion that the provision of omnibus services Is impracticable or difficult, or in addition to the omnibus services where the Board is of opinion that the provision of such hiring car services is necessary to meet an increased demand for passenger transport;

	(viii) to provide for passengers transported by the Regional Transport Boards such amenities as shelters or stations ;

	(ix) to provide and maintain places at which omnibuses, hiring cars or lorries of the Regional Transport Boards may be halted or may stand for hire ;

	(x) to undertake carriage of newspapers, mails, parcels or other postal articles for payment;

	(xi) to establish, maintain and operate ferry services for the transport of passengers and goods by water ;

	(xii) to undertake the carriage of goods of every description and for that purpose to acquire or requisition, with the concurrence of the Central Board, any property movable or immovable other than money, used or intended to be used by the owner of any motor transport service for the trans port of goods ;

	(xiii) to delegate to any officer of the Regional Transport Board any such function of the Board as the Board may consider necessary so to delegate for the efficient transaction of its business ;

	(xiv) to enter into and perform, directly or through any officer or agent authorized in that behalf by the Regional Transport Board, all such contracts as may be necessary for the performance of the duties and the exercise of the powers of the Board;

	(xv) to make, with the concurrence of the Central Board, rules in respect of the administration of the affairs of the Regional Trans port Board ; and

	(xvi) to do all other things which in the opinion of the Regional Transport Board are necessary to facilitate the proper carrying on of its business and other activities,

(3)

(a) The Central Board in consultation with any Regional Transport Board may, from time to time, with the approval of the Minister, determine the fares which may be levied by that Regional Transport Board in respect of all the omnibus services of that Board or the omnibus services of that Board in particular areas within its region or any particular class of omnibus service or services of that Board.

	(b) The fares determined under paragraph (a) shall be published in the Gazette and shall come into operation on such date as may be specified therein.

	(c) For the purposes of this subsection the expression " omnibus services " includes any hiring car services any ferry services, or motor transport services for the transport of goods provided by the Regional Transport Board.

(4) Nothing in the provisions of subsections (1), (2) and (3) shall be construed as authorizing the disregard by the Central Board or the Regional Transport Boards of any law for the time being in force.

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