TRANSPORT BOARD

(a) the Chairman and three other members all of whom shall be appointed by the Minister from among persons who appear to the Minister to have had experience and shown capacity in transport, industrial, commercial or financial matters, or in administration or labour relations;

(b) the Chairman of each Regional Transport Board ; and

(c) a public officer of the General Treasury nominated by the Minister in charge of the subject of Finance.

(a) a Chairman and three other members all of whom shall be appointed by the Minister from among persons who appear to the Minister to have had experience and shown capacity in transport, industrial, commercial or financial matters, or in administration or labour relations; and

(b) a public officer nominated by the Minister in charge of the subject of Finance.

(a) the broader aspects of engineering, in relation to its business and that of the Regional Transport Boards;

(b) production planning;

(c) co-ordination of schedules;

(d) co-ordination of services and operational activities;

(e) the import and purchase of motor vehicles and spares and accessories for motor vehicles;

(f) civil engineering services ;

(g) overall budgeting and planning; and

(h) the provision of managerial expertise and assistance to the Regional Transport Boards-

(a) to provide efficient regular omnibus services within its region and inter-regionally and to co-ordinate as far as possible such services with the railway passenger transport service and, while avoiding the provision of unnecessary and wasteful omnibus services, to extend and improve the omnibus services within its region and inter-regionally so as to meet the road passenger transport needs of the public;

(b) to provide ferry services for the transport of passengers by water and to undertake the carriage of goods of every description by land ; and

(c) to conduct its business in such a manner and to levy such fares in accordance with the provisions of this Law, as will secure that the revenue of the Board is not less than sufficient for meeting the charges which are proper to be made to the revenue of the Board and for establishing and maintaining an adequate general reserve.

(i) to acquire, hold, take or give on lease or hire, mortgage, pledge, and sell or otherwise 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:

(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 through 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 alt 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.

(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 officers 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 others, 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: 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;

(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 transport 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 Transport 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-

(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.

(a) for the purpose of transferring to any one or more Regional Transport Boards any ferry established under the Tolls Ordinance together with any movable property connected with or required for the purpose of such ferry; and

(b) for the purpose of transferring to one or more of the Regional Transport Boards any contracts or liabilities of the Republic connected with such ferry.

(a) the ferry and the movable property specified in the Order shall vest in the Regional Transport Board or Boards specified in that Order;

(b) the contracts specified in the Order shall be deemed to be the contracts of that Board or those Boards and all subsisting rights and obligations of the Republic under such contracts shall be deemed to be the rights and obligations of that Board or those Boards; and

(c) any liabilities specified in the Order shall be deemed to be the liabilities of that Board or those Boards.

(a) if, at the time of his temporary appointment to the staff of such Board, his substantive post in the public service was a post declared to be pensionable under the Minutes on Pensions-

(b) if, at the time of his temporary appointment to the staff of such Board, he was a contributor to the Public Service Provident Fund established under the Public Service Provident Fund Ordinance, his service to such Board shall, for the purpose of that Ordinance, be deemed to be service to the Government, and accordingly he shall, while he is in the employ of such Board, continue to pay to the Public Service Provident Fund such contributions as he may be liable under that Ordinance to pay, and in respect of him such Board shall pay at the close of each financial year out of the funds of such Board to the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury to be credited to the appropriate account in the Public Service Provident Fund a sum equivalent to such contribution as the Government is liable to pay to the Public Service Provident Fund in respect of him.

(a) he shall be deemed to have left the public service;

(b) if, at the time of his permanent appointment to the staff of such Board, his substantive post in the public service was a post declared to be pensionable under the Minutes on Pensions-

(c) if, at the time of his permanent appointment to the staff of such Board, he was a contributor to the Public Service Provident Fund established under the Public Service Provident Fund Ordinance, he shall for the purpose of that Ordinance, be deemed to have left the service of the Government upon the determination of contract with the consent of the Government otherwise than by dismissal.

(a) At the request of the Central Board or any Regional Transport Board any officer or servant of the Local Government Service or of any local authority may, with the consent of that officer or servant and the Local Government Service Advisory Board or that authority, as the case may be, be temporarily appointed to the staff of the Central Board or the Regional Transport Board making the request for such period as may be determined by the Central Board or the Regional Transport Board with like consent, or with like consent be permanently appointed to such staff, on such terms and conditions, including those relating to pension or provident fund rights, as may be agreed upon by the Central Board or the Regional Transport Board and the Local Government Service Advisory Board or authority.

(b) Where an officer or servant of the Local Government Service or of any local authority is temporarily appointed to the staff of the Central Board or any Regional Transport Board he shall be subject to the same disciplinary control as any other member of such staff.

(i) of the Central Board may, with the consent of that officer or servant and that Board, be temporarily or permanently appointed to the staff of any Regional Transport Board ;

(ii) of any Regional Transport Board may, with the consent of that officer or servant and that Board, be temporarily or permanently appointed to the staff of the Central Board,

(a) may establish and maintain an insurance reserve to cover the insurance of the movable and immovable property of the Board and to meet liabilities arising in respect of third-party risks, and to meet liabilities arising under the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance ; and

(b) shall establish and maintain

(a) may establish and maintain an insurance reserve to cover the insurance of the movable and immovable property of the Board and to meet liabilities arising in respect of third-party risks, and to meet liabilities arising under the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance ; and

(b) shall establish and maintain-

(a) The sum to be carried from time to time to the credit of each of the reserves specified in subsections (1) and (2) shall be such sum as the Central Board or each respective Regional Transport Board with the concurrence of the Central Board, as the case may be, determines.

(b) The sums lying to the credit of the insurance reserves specified in subsections (1) (a) and (2) (a) shall be invested in Government Treasury Bills.”.

(a) to ensure the financial stability of the undertaking of such Board ;

(b) to prevent, in the case of each Regional Transport Board, frequent fluctuations in the fares levied by each such Board in respect of the omnibus and hiring car services, ferry services, and motor transport services for the transport of goods provided by each such Board,

(a) the working and establishment expenses (including where applicable, allocation to the depreciation reserve), in connexion with the exercise and performance of the powers and duties chargeable to revenue account of the Central Board or the Regional Transport Board, as the case may be ;

(b) the interest on any temporary loan raised by such Board ;

(c) the sums required to be transferred to any sinking fund or redemption fund ; and

(d) the interest on and the repayment of the principal of any Government loan.

(a) any matter in respect of which regulations are authorized or required by this Law to be made ;

(b) the establishment of a Central Consultative Committee to advise the Central Board on the adequacy, suitableness, and efficiency of, and on any other matter relating to. the regular omnibus services and hiring car services provided by the Regional Transport Boards;

(c) the establishment of a regional consultative committee for each region to advise the Regional Transport Board of the respective region on the adequacy, suitableness and efficiency of, and any other matter relating to, the regular omnibus services and hiring car services, provided by that Board;

(d) the remuneration of the members of the Central Consultative Committee and regional consultative committees;

(e) the prevention of damage to, or the commission of nuisance on, the property used by the Central Board and property of the Regional Transport Boards including property used for the purpose of providing regular or occasional omnibus services and hiring car services, and the imposition of penalties on, and the recovery of compensation from, persons responsible for damage or nuisance; and

(f) the restriction of the admission or entry of persons into any place provided and maintained by the Regional Transport Boards for the halting or parking of their omnibuses, hiring cars and lorries and the regulation of the behaviour of persons who enter therein.

(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, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction by a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred rupees :

Provided that a prosecution shall not be instituted against any person in respect of an offence under paragraph (a) if such person pays to any officer of the respective Regional Transport Board, authorized by that Board to receive such payments, a penalty of twenty rupees together with twice the fare due from him.

(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,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction by a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees :

Provided that a prosecution shall not be instituted or maintained in respect of an offence under this subsection against any such passenger if he pays to an officer of the Regional Transport Board authorized by the Board to receive such payment, a penalty of two rupees and fifty cents together with twice the fare due from him for that journey.

(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 Transport 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,

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) 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, 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) against the Central Board or any Regional Transport Board for any act which in good faith is done or purported to be done under this Law by the Central Board or the Regional Transport Board, as the case may be; or

(b) against any member, officer, servant or agent of such Board for any act which in good faith is done or purported to be done by him under this Law or on the direction of such Board.