MVA Section 109: General provision regarding construction and maintenance of vehicles
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 · Chapter 7: CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF MOTOR VEHICLES
¶109. General provision regarding construction and maintenance of vehicles.—(1) Every motor vehicle shall be so constructed and so maintained as to be at all times under the effective control of the person driving the vehicle.
(2) Every motor vehicle shall be so constructed as to have right hand steering control unless it is equipped with a mechanical or electrical signalling device of a prescribed nature. [(3) If the Central Government is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, it may by order published in the Official Gazette, notify that any article or process used by a manufacturer shall conform to such standard as may be specified in that order.]
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