The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake
Bimal Rathnayake clarified, in response to a question raised by Jagath Vithana, that existing gazetted regulations allow medically fit persons aged 23 to 65 to obtain licences for passenger transport, including buses, with the required endorsement. He said the Motor Traffic Commissioner General confirmed that public transport licences are not issued after age 65, though medically fit persons above that age may drive private vehicles, and that age 60 is therefore not a legal barrier to driving public transport.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Presiding Member, may I take two minutes from Government time?
¶ 02 Hon. Jagath Vithana, I spoke to the Motor Traffic Commissioner General. He informed me that as per long-standing gazetted regulations, persons medically fit between 23 and 65 years can be licensed to drive passenger transport including buses; there is a separate passenger transport endorsement. Beyond 65, even if medically fit, no licence is issued for public transport—this is not a new rule. After 65, if medically fit, they may drive private vehicles. Therefore, being 60 is not a barrier to driving public transport under the law.
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Cite as: The Hon. Bimal Rathnayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 8 January 2025. No. 1737023464031571. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/27710