Rule, 2017

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EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 98] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2017/MAGHA 21, 1938

MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 10th February, 2017

G.S.R. 121(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. 659 (E), dated the 4 th July, 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 4th July, 2016;

AND whereas, no objection and suggestions received from the public in respect of the said draft rules. NOW, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 110 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 (First Amendment) Rules, 2017.

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

2. In the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, in rule 125, in sub-rule (1C), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:- “Provided that this sub-rule is applicable only to those drive away chassis vehicles driven on road, whenever and wherever, by its own wheels using own power and not applicable to those drive away chassis vehicles that are transported upon trailers or by any other mode of transportation.”. ABHAY DAMLE, Jt. Secy.

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

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

G.S.R.1183(E), dated 29.12.2016.

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

SARVESH KUMAR SRIVASTAVA

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Other instruments under the same Act

All of the The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988