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RULE 85 THE CENTRAL MOTOR VEHICLES RULES, 1989 103
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[(2A) The authority which grants the authorisation shall inform the State
Transport Authorities concerned the registration number of the motor vehicle, the name
and address of the permit holder and the period for which the said authorisation is
valid:]
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[PROVIDED that where the permit holder undertakes to pay the tax direct to the
concerned State Transport Authority at the time of entry in his jurisdiction, the
authorisation shall expressly state that it has been issued subject to payment of taxes to
the concerned State Transport Authority.]
(3) The period of validity of an authorisation shall not exceed one year at a time.
84. Right of operation
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No tourist permit shall be deemed to confer the right of operation in any State not
included in the authorisation referred to in rule 83 nor shall it exempt the owner of a
vehicle from the payment of tax or fee, if any, leviable in any State.
85. Additional conditions of tourist permit
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The following shall be the additional conditions of every tourist permit granted to
a tourist vehicle other than a motor cab under sub-section (9) of section 88, namely:—
(1) The permit holder shall cause to be prepared in respect of each trip a list in
triplicate of tourist passengers to be carried in the vehicle, giving full particulars as
under:
(a) name of the passenger,
(b) address of the passenger,
(c) age of the passenger,
(d) starting point and the point of destination.
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[(2) One copy of the list referred to in sub-rule (1) shall be carried in the tourist
vehicle and shall be produced on demand by the officers authorised to demand
production of documents by or under the provisions of the Act and the Rules, and the
second copy shall be preserved by the permit holder.]
(3) The tourist vehicle shall either commence its journey, or end its journey, circular
or otherwise, in the home State, subject to the condition that the vehicle shall not remain
outside the home State for a period of more than three months. The permit holder shall
see that every return of the tourist vehicle to the home State is reported to the authority
which issued the permit:
PROVIDED that where the contracted journey ends outside the home State, the
vehicle shall not be offered for hire within that State or from that State to any other State
except for the return journey to any point in the home State.
(4) The tourist vehicle may operate circular tours of places lying exclusively in the
home State or in the home State and outside the State if such circular tours are in the list
approved by the Tourist Department of the home State to visit places of tourist, historical
or religious importance and the tour is duly advertised beforehand:

1 Inserted vide GSR 338(E), dt. 26-3-1993.
2 Inserted vide GSR 76(E), w.e.f. 31-1-2000.
3 Substituted vide GSR 338(E), dt. 26-3-1993.