Act Number: 59

Act Name: The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

Year: 1988

Enactment Date: 1988-10-14

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to motor vehicles.

Ministry: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Department:

Section 182: Offences relating to licences.
    (1) Whoever, being disqualified under this Act for holding or obtaining a driving licence drives a motor vehicle in a public place or in any other place, or applies for or obtains a driving licence or, not being entitled to have a driving licence issued to him free of endorsement, applies for or obtains a driving licence without disclosing the endorsement made on a driving licence previously held by him shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine 1[of ten thousand rupees] or with both, and any driving licence so obtained by him shall be of no effect.
     (2) Whoever, being disqualified under this Act for holding or obtaining a conductors licence, acts as a conductor of a stage carriage in a public place or applies for or obtains a conductors licence or, not being entitled to have a conductors licence issued to him free of endorsement, applies for or obtains a conductors licence without disclosing the endorsements made on a conductors licence previously held by him, shall be punishable with improsonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to 2[ten thousand rupees], or with both, and any conductors licence so obtained by him shall be of no effect.
    
Notes:
1. Subs. by s. 64, ibid., for which may extend to five hundred rupees (w.e.f. 1-9-2019).
2. Subs. by s. 64, ibid., for one hundred rupees (w.e.f. 1-9-2019).
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