Road Transport Ministry notifies provisions of Motor Vehicles Amendment Act

Road Transport Ministry on Wednesday notified the provisions of Motor Vehicles Amendment Act, which will come into effect from September 1, 2019.

The provisions of the new Act include provisions for enhanced penalties which are being notified now. For these provisions, no further amendments in Central Motor Vehicles Rules 1989 are required.

For the rest, the Ministry has initiated the process of formulating the draft rules and as and when the process would be completed the relevant provisions would be notified for implementation.

Section/ Offence	Old Penalty	New Penalty (Minimum)
General (177)	Rs 100	Rs 500
Rules of road regulation violation (new 177A)	Rs. 100	Rs 500
Travelling without a ticket (178)	Rs 200	Rs 500
Disobedience of orders of authorities (179)	Rs 500	Rs 2000
Unauthorized use of vehicles without licence (180)	Rs 1000	Rs 5000
Driving without licence (181)	Rs 500	Rs 5000
Driving without qualification (182)	Rs 500	Rs 10,000
Oversized vehicles (182B)	New	Rs 5000
Over speeding (183)	Rs 400	Rs 1000 for LMV, Rs 2000 for Medium Passenger Vehicle
Dangerous driving penalty (184)	Rs. 1,000	Upto Rs 5000
Drunken driving (185)	Rs 2000	Rs 10,000
Speeding/ Racing (189)	Rs 500	Rs 5,000
Vehicle without permit (192A)	Upto Rs 5000	Upto Rs 10,000
Aggregators (violations of licencing conditions) (193)	New	Rs 25,000 to Rs 1,00,000
Overloading (194)	Rs 2,000, and Rs 1,000 per extra tonne	Rs 20,000, and Rs 2,000 per extra tonne
Overloading of Passengers (194A)	N.A.	Rs 1000 per extra passenger
Seat Belt (194 B)	Rs 100	Rs 1,000
Overloading of two-wheelers (194 C)	Rs 100	Rs 2,000 , Disqualification of licence for 3 months
Not providing way for emergency vehicles (194E)	New	Rs 10,000
Driving without insurance (196)	Rs 1,000	Rs 2,000
Offences by Juveniles (199)	New	Guardian/ Owner shall be deemed guilty. Rs 25,000 with 3 years imprisonment. Juvenile to be tried under JJ Act. Registration of Motor Vehicle to be cancelled.
Power of officers to impound documents (206)	N.A.	Suspension of driving licence under sections 183, 184, 185, 189, 190, 194C, 194D, 194E
Offences committed by enforcing authorities (210B)	N.A.	Twice the penalty under the relevant section

On August 1, 2019, the Rajya Sabha had cleared the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that aims to improve road safety, facilitate citizens in their dealings with transport departments, strengthen rural transport, public transport and last mile connectivity through automation, computerization and online services.

The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 is based on the recommendations of the Group of Transport Ministers (GoM) of States constituted by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways.

The Lok Sabha had already passed the Bill on the July 23, 2019.