The document summarizes key amendments made to the Motor Vehicles Act in 2019 in India. Some important changes include provisions for recall of vehicles that cause environmental damage or risks to drivers/others, regulations for taxi aggregators requiring them to obtain licenses from states, stricter rules around use of safety equipment like seat belts and helmets, and higher penalties for violations like not giving way to emergency vehicles or honking in silence zones. The amendments aim to improve road safety and management of the motor vehicle industry in India.
2. AMENDMENTS(2019):
Lok Sabha on 15th july 2019 - Mr. Nitin Gadkari.
The Act Provides -
1. Licenses and Permits
2. Standards for motor vehicles
3. Penalties for violation
4. RECALL OF MOTOR VEHICLES :
110A.
Damage to the environment or the driver or other road users.
The manufacturer :
1. Reimbursement- full cost of the vehicle
2. Replace - similar or better specifications.
5. TAXI AGGREGATORS:
AMENDMENT OF SECTION-193.AMENDMENT
Digital intermediaries (OLA CAB) :
Passengers to connect with a driver for transportation purposes
(taxi services)
Licenses issued by state
9. DOCUMENTS :
Section - 158.
A police officer in uniform is authorized on this behalf by the State
Government, produce certificate of -
(a) Insurance
(b) Registration
(c) Pollution under control certificate
(d) Driving license
(e) Transport vehicle - certificate of fitness
10. Section 129, Principal Act :
Four years of age - Child Restrain System
Headgear Helmet :
-Protective headgear
- securely fastened to the head
SPECIFICATIONS
Sikh
11. Carriage of Excess Passengers :
"194A.
Transport vehicle - Carrying more passengers than authorized in the
registration certificate / In the permit.
Punishable with fine of two hundred rupees per excess passenger.
12. Safety belts -
Seating of children
194B.
Age of 14 yrs - Safety belt
Upto 4yrs A child restrain system
Punishable with a fine of one thousand rupees.
13. Penalty for no headgear :
194D.
- punishable with a fine
- Rs. 1000
- Cancellation of license for three months.
14. Failure to allow free passage to Emergency vehicles:
194E.
A fire service vehicle
An ambulance
punishable with imprisonment of 6 months, or with a fine
of Rs. 10,000/- or with both.
15. Use of horns and silence zones
194F.
(a) HORN-
(i) sounds the horn needlessly or continuously or more than necessary to ensure
safety
(ii) an area with a traffic sign prohibiting the use of a horn
(b) Cut-out by which exhaust gases released not through the silencer
Punishable - fine of Rs. 1000/-
A second or subsequent offence with a fine of Rs. 2000/-.
16. Insertion of new sections 199A and 199B.
Offences by juveniles
199A. (1) the guardian of such juvenile or the owner of the motor
vehicle shall be deemed to be guilty
- FINE OF Rs. 25,000/-
17. POLLUTION UNDER
CONTROL CERTIFICATE
- Mandatory document
requirement for a vehicle
Validity of PUC for new car is 1
year from registration
Renewal every 06 months
(b) 194 B cut-out by which
exhaust gases with a fine of Rs.
2000/- .
18. TAKE HOME MESSAGE
1. GOOD SAMARITANS LAW
2. PUCC
3. SEAT BELT AND SPECIALSEAT FOR CHILDREN
4. INSURANCE,IRDA
5. HEAD GEAR USE
6.GIVE WAY TO AMBULANCE