Rule, 2017

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EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 192] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017/PHALGUNA 24, 1938

MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 15th March, 2017

G.S.R 247(E).—Whereas, the draft of certain rules further to amend the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 110 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), was published as required by sub-section (1) of section 212 of the said Act in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways number

G.S.R. 1181(E) dated the 29th December, 2016, inviting objections and suggestions from all persons likely to be affected thereby within a period of thirty days from the date on which copies of the Gazette containing the said notification were made available to public; AND whereas, copies of the Gazette containing the said notification were made available to the public on the 29th December, 2016;

AND whereas, objections and suggestions received from the public in respect of the said draft rules have been considered by the Central Government.

Therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 109 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Central Motor Vehicles (4 th Amendment) Rules, 2017.

(2)They shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989,-

(a) in rule 124, in sub-rule (2), for the words “ or Central Institute of Road Transport, Pune”, the following shall be substituted, namely:- “and in the case of tyre and rubber components from the Indian Rubber Manufacturers Research Association, Thane ”;

(b) in rule 126,-

(i) after the words and brackets “or the Northern Region Farm Machinery Training and Testing Institute, Hisar (for testing of combine harvester)”, the following shall be inserted, namely:- “or the Global Automotive Research Centre, Chennai”;

(ii) after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:- “Provided also that prototype of bus bodies and truck bodies may be submitted for testing and type approval to engineering colleges specified by the State Government or the State Road Transport Undertakings duly approved by the State Government.”.

ABHAY DAMLE, Jt. Secy.

Note : The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, section 3, sub-section (i) vide notification number

G.S.R. 590(E), dated the 2nd June, 1989 and last amended vide notification number

G.S.R. 120(E), dated the 10 th February, 2017.

and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.

RAKESH SUKUL

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Other instruments under the same Act

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