MVA Section 215: Road Safety Councils and Committees
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 · Chapter 14: MISCELLANEOUS
¶215. Road Safety Councils and Committees.—(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute for the country a National Road Safety Council consisting of a Chairman and such other members as that Government considers necessary and on such terms and conditions as that Government may determine.
(2) A State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute for the State a State Road Safety Council consisting of a Chairman and such other members as that Government considers necessary and on such terms and conditions as that Government may determine.
(3) A State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute District Road Safety Committee for each district in the State consisting of a Chairman and such other members as that Government considers necessary and on such terms and conditions as that Government may determine. [Provided that where a State Government has not constituted the District Road Safety Committee, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute a Committee for such District, consisting of a Chairman and such other members as it considers necessary and on such terms and conditions as it may determine.]
(4) The Councils and Committees referred to in this section shall discharge such functions relating to the road safety programmes as the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, may, having regard to the objects of the Act, specify.
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- 211A. Use of electronic forms and documents
- 212. Publication, commencement and laying of rules and notifications
- 213. Appointment of motor vehicles officers
- 214. Effect of appeal and revision on orders passed by original authority
- 215A. Power of Central Government and State Government to delegate
- 215B. National Road Safety Board
- 215C. Power of Central Government to make rules
- 215D. Power of State Government to make rules
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- 217. Repeal and savings
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