# The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 16: Revocation of driving licence on grounds of disease or disability

- Act: The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988)
- In force from: 1989-07-01
- Ministry: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
- Source URL: https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/mv-act/section/16/

## Text

Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sections, any licensing authority may at any time revoke a driving licence or may require, as a condition of continuing to hold such driving licence, the holder thereof to produce a medical certificate in the same form and in the same manner as is referred to in sub-section (3) of section 8, if the licensing authority has reasonable grounds to belive that the holder of the driving licence is, by virtue of any disease or disability, unfit to drive a motor vehicle and where the authority revoking a driving licence is not the authority which issued the same, it shall intimate the fact of revocation to the authority which issued that licence.

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