Notification, 2017

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EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 333] NEW DELHI, MONDAY, MAY 01, 2017/VAISAKHA 11, 1939

MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 1st May, 2017

G.S.R. 423(E).—Whereas the draft rules further to amend the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 were published, as required under sub-section (1) of section 212 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways number

G.S.R. 397 (E), dated the 20th April, 2017 in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, section 3, sub-section (i) inviting objections and suggestions from affected persons before the expiry of the period of ten days from the date on which copies of the Gazette containing the said notification were made available to public; Whereas, copies of the said Gazette notification were made available to the public on the 20th April, 2017; And whereas, the objections and suggestions received from the public in respect of the said draft rules have been considered by the Central Government;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 110 of the Motor Vehicles Act, (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 (Seventh 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, 1989, in rule 108,—

(a) in sub-rule (1), in the proviso,—

(i) for clause (ii), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:— “(ii) the amber light, if displayed by any direction indicator or as top light used on vehicle for operating within the premises such as airports, ports, mines and project sites, without going outside the said premises on to public roads;”

(iii) clause (iii) shall be omitted;

(iv) clause (v) shall be omitted;

(b) sub-rules (2) and (3) shall be omitted;

(c) in sub-rule (4), for the words “emergency duties and shall be specifically specified by State Governments”, the words “such emergency and disaster management duties as may be specified by the Central Government” shall be substituted;

(d) sub-rules (5) and (6) shall be omitted.

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 was last amended vide notification number and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.

SARVESH KUMAR SRIVASTAVA

Provisions this notification answers to

Read out of the instrument itself: an enabling provision is one it says it was made under, which is the power it rests on. The rest it names without resting on.

Other instruments under the same Act

All of the The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988