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| (1) Any passenger in any omnibus of the Board -
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| | (b) who wilfully refuses or neglects on arriving at his destination, to quit that omnibus, hiring car or ferry;
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| | (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;
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| | (d) who wilfully spoils any part of, such omnibus;
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| | (e) who smokes or carries any lighted pipe, cigar,
cigarette or article for smoking in any part of such
omnibus in which a notice prohibiting smoking is
exhibited; or
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| | (f) who throws out of such omnibus 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 the Board who-
| | (a) does not retain with him throughout the journey the ticket that is issued to him for that journey; or
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| | (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-
| | (a) who fraudulently uses or allows any other person to use any ticket issued by or under the authority of the Board;
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| | (b) who fraudulently imitates, alters, mutilates, defaces
or destroys any such ticket;
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| | (c) who, without authority from the Board, sells, supplies
or distributes, offers for sale or supply or distribution,
any such ticket;
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| | (d) who without such authority prints what purports to
be, or is capable of being used as, any such ticket;
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| | (e) who wilfully damages or defaces any omnibus,
hiring car or ferry of the Board or any part of its
equipment; or
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| | (f) who wilfully does or causes to be done with regard
to any part of such omnibus or its equipment anything which is calculated to obstruct or interfere with the working of the omnibus or causes any injury or discomfort to any person,
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| (4) Any officer or servant of the Board who, without
authority from the Board -
| | (a) opens or otherwise tampers or interferes with any
machine for the issue of tickets belonging to the
Board; or
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| | (b) alters or tampers with any bill or receipt issued by
the Board,
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| (5) Any person who travels as a passenger in any omnibus,
hiring car or ferry of the Board without having a pass in his
possession issued by the Board or without having purchased
a ticket, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction
by a Magistrate be liable to a fine not less than two hundred
and fifty rupees and not exceeding one thousand rupees:
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| (6) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with
any provision of this Act or any regulation made thereunder
for which no other punishment is expressly provided in this
Act or the regulations, shall be guilty of an offence and shall,
on conviction by a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not less
than five hundred rupees and not exceeding one thousand
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 Act 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 Act or any regulation made thereunder shall be guilty of
that offence.
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts