MVA Section 194A: Carriage of excess passengers
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 · Chapter 13: OFFENCES, PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE
¶[194A. Carriage of excess passengers.—Whoever drives a transport vehicle or causes or allows a transport vehicle to be driven while carrying more passengers than is authorised in the registration certificate of such transport vehicle or the permit conditions applicable to such transport vehicle shall be [liable for a penalty] of two hundred rupees per excess passenger:
Provided that such transport vehicle shall not be allowed to move before the excess passengers are off-loaded and an alternative transport is arranged for such passengers.
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- 177. General provision for punishment of offences
- 177A. Penalty for contravention of regulations under section 118
- 178. Penalty for travelling without pass or ticket and for dereliction of duty on the part of conductor and refusal to ply contract carriage, etc
- 179. Disobedience of orders, obstruction and refusal of information
- 180. Allowing unauthorised persons to drive vehicles
- 181. Driving vehicles in contravention of section 3 or section 4
- 182. Offences relating to licences
- 182A. Punishment for offences relating to construction, maintenance, sale and alteration of motor vehicles and components
- 182B. Penalty for contravention of section 62A
- 183. Driving at excessive speed, etc
- 184. Driving dangerously
- 185. Driving by a drunken person or by a person under the influence of drugs
- 186. Driving when mentally or physically unfit to drive
- 187. Punishment for offences relating to accident
- 188. Punishment for abetment of certain offences
- 189. Racing and trials of speed
- 190. Using vehicle in unsafe condition
- 191. [Omitted]
- 192. Using vehicle without registration
- 192A. Using vehicle without permit
- 192B. Offences relating to registration
- 193. Punishment of agents, canvassers and aggregators without proper authority
- 194. Driving vehicle exceeding permissible weight
- 194B. Use of safety belts and the seating of children
- 194C. Penalty for violation of safety measures for motor cycle drivers and pillion riders
- 194D. Penalty for not wearing protective headgear
- 194E. Failure to allow free passage to emergency vehicles
- 194F. Use of horns and silence zones
- 195. [Omitted]
- 196. Driving uninsured vehicle
- 197. Taking vehicle without authority
- 198. Unauthorised interference with vehicle
- 198A. Failure to comply with standards for road design, construction and maintenance
- 199. Offences by companies
- 199A. Offences by juveniles
- 199B. Revision of fines and penalties
- 200. Composition of certain offences
- 201. Penalty for causing obstruction to free flow of traffic
- 202. Power to arrest without warrant
- 203. Breath tests
- 204. Laboratory test
- 205. Presumption of unfitness to drive
- 206. Power of police officer to impound document
- 207. Power to detain vehicles used without certificate of registration permit, etc
- 208. Summary disposal of cases
- 209. Restriction on conviction
- 210. Courts to send intimation about conviction
- 210A. Power of State Government to increase fines or penalties
- 210B. Penalty for offence committed by an enforcing authority
- 210C. Power of Central Government to make rules
- 210D. Power of State Government to make rules