MVA Section 77: Application for goods carriage permit
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 · Chapter 5: CONTROL OF TRANSPORT VEHICLES
¶77. Application for goods carriage permit.—An application for a permit to use a motor vehicle for the carriage of goods for hire or reward or for the carriage of goods for or in connection with a trade or business carried on by the applicant (in this Chapter referred to as a goods carriage permit) shall, as far as may be, contain the following particulars, namely:—
(a) the area or the route or routes to which the application relates;
(b) the type and capacity of the vehicle;
(c) the nature of the goods it is proposed to carry;
(d) the arrangements intended to be made for the housing, maintenance and repair of the vehicle and for the storage and safe custody of the goods;
(e) such particulars as the Regional Transport Authority may require with respect to any business as a carrier of goods for hire or reward carried on by the applicant at any time before the making of the application, and of the rates charged by the applicant;
(f) particulars of any agreement, or arrangement, affecting in any material respect the provision within the region of the Regional Transport Authority of facilities for the transport of goods for hire or reward, entered into by the applicant with any other person by whom such facilities are provided, whether within or without the region;
(g) any other particulars which may be prescribed.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 66. Necessity for permits
- 66A. National Transportation Policy
- 66B. No bar against permit holders to apply and hold licences under schemes
- 67. Power to State Government to control road transport
- 68. Transport Authorities
- 69. General provision as to applications for permits
- 70. Application for stage carriage permit
- 71. Procedure of Regional Transport Authority in considering application for stage carriage permit
- 72. Grant of stage carriage permits
- 73. Application for contract carriage permit
- 74. Grant of contract carriage permit
- 75. Scheme for renting of motor cabs and motor cycles
- 76. Application for private service vehicle permit
- 78. Consideration of application for goods carriage permit
- 79. Grant of goods carriage permit
- 80. Procedure in applying for and granting permits
- 81. Duration and renewal of permits
- 82. Transfer of permit
- 83. Replacement of vehicles
- 84. General conditions attaching to all permits
- 85. General form of permits
- 86. Cancellation and suspension of permits
- 87. Temporary permits
- 88. Validation of permits for use outside region in which granted
- 88A. Power of Central Government to make schemes for national, multimodal and inter-State transport of passengers and goods
- 89. Appeals
- 90. Revision
- 91. Restriction of hours of work of drivers
- 92. Voidance of contracts restrictive of liability
- 93. Agent or canvasser or aggregator to obtain licence
- 94. Bar on jurisdiction of Civil Courts
- 95. Power of State Government to make rules as to stage carriages and contract carriages
- 96. Power of State Government to make rules for the purposes of this Chapter