4. Section 225 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor;
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| | (1) Where any court convicts any person of the offence of possessing or using a motor vehicle in contravention of section 25 (1), and a certificate Is produced., signed by the licensing authority and stating the amount payable as fee on a revenue licence for that-motor vehicle under this Act and penalty under section 29 of the Finance Act, No, 38 of 1971, the court shall, in addition to any other punishment which it-may Impose for that offence, order a sum equal to that amount to be recovered from that person, as though it were a. line imposed by the court; and any such sum may be so recovered notwithstanding-- that it may exceed the amount of the fine which the court may in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction impose. Every such sum when recovered by the court, shall be disposed of in like manner as the fee and penalty payable on a revenue licence for that motor vehicle. | | |
| | (2) Any person, who is dissatisfied with any order made under subsection (1) may, if he appeals against the conviction in consequence of which the order was made, appeal against the order to the Supreme Court and the provisions of Chapter IV of the Administration of "Justice Law, No. 44 of 1973, shall, in so far as they apply to appeals in criminal cases, apply to such appeal. | | |
| | (3) Where a sum equal to the fee payable on the revenue licence required for any motor vehicle in respect of any year or part of a year and the penalty is recovered from any person in pursuance of any order made under subsection (1) or by the Supreme Court under subsection (2), and that motor vehicle is fit to be used on a highway and all other requirements of this Act relating to. the licensing of motor vehicles have been complied with in respect of that motor vehicle, the licensing authority shall issue a revenue licence for that motor vehicle in respect of that year or part of a year in like manner as if the application for such licence had been duly made under Part III and accompanied by the amount of the fee and penalty. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts