MVA: Chapter 2: LICENSING OF DRIVERS OF MOTOR VEHICLES

  1. Section 3. Necessity for driving licence
  2. Section 4. Age limit in connection with driving of motor vehicles
  3. Section 5. Responsibility of owners of motor vehicles for contravention of sections 3 and 4
  4. Section 6. Restrictions on the holding of driving licences
  5. Section 7. Restrictions on the granting of learner’s licences for certain vehicles
  6. Section 8. Grant of learner’s licence
  7. Section 9. Grant of driving licence
  8. Section 10. Form and contents of licences to drive
  9. Section 11. Additions to driving licence
  10. Section 12. Licensing and regulation of schools or establishments for imparting instruction in driving of motor vehicles
  11. Section 13. Extent of effectiveness of licences, to drive motor vehicles
  12. Section 14. Currency of licences to drive motor vehicles
  13. Section 15. Renewal of driving licences
  14. Section 16. Revocation of driving licence on grounds of disease or disability
  15. Section 17. Orders refusing or revoking driving licences and appeals therefrom
  16. Section 18. Driving Licences to drive motor vehicles, belonging to the Central Government
  17. Section 19. Power of licensing authority to disqualify from holding a driving licence or revoke such licence
  18. Section 20. Power of Court to disqualify
  19. Section 21. Suspension of driving licence in certain cases
  20. Section 22. Suspension or cancellation of driving licence on conviction
  21. Section 23. Effect of disqualification order
  22. Section 24. Endorsement
  23. Section 25. Transfer of endorsement and issue of driving licence free from endorsement
  24. Section 25A. National Register of Driving Licences
  25. Section 26. Maintenance of State Registers of Driving Licences
  26. Section 27. Power of Central Government to make rules
  27. Section 28. Power of State Government to make rules

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