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REG. 27 MOTOR VEHICLES (DRIVING) REGULATIONS, 2017 815

driver to exercise due care and caution, the driver shall obey the signals or
instructions of a police officer on duty in uniform in regard to movement of the
vehicle.
(4) The driver shall obey the verbal directions or signals of a police officer
for the time being on duty with regard to movement of the vehicle, including the
directions to stop or reverse the vehicle or to slow down or to turn back or to move
in the specified direction or to keep in such line of traffic as may be specified by
the said police officer.
25. Passing along formations
(1) While passing along formations such as funeral and other procession or
a body of troops or police contingent on the march, or pack or saddle of animals
or cattle, the driver shall reduce the speed of the vehicle, and pass by the formation
slowly and cautiously, leaving adequate space between the formation and the
vehicle.
(2) If the formation as described in sub-regulation (1) is crossing, or is about
to cross, the road in front of the vehicle, the driver shall stop the vehicle and allow
the formation to cross the road and not drive through the formation.
26. Bar on traffic impairment
Unless validly permitted by the competent authority under the Act or the
rules made thereunder, no driver shall—
(i) offer goods or services of any kind on the road; or
(ii) display any advertisement on the vehicle.
27. Vehicles designated for emergency duties
(1) The driver of a vehicle designated by the State Government for emergency
services under sub-rule (4) of rule 108 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989
including a vehicle used as ambulance or for fire-fighting or for salvage purposes
or a police vehicle, shall operate the multi-toned horn (siren) and the multi-
coloured light with flasher only when the vehicle is responding to an emergency
call or an alarm.
(2) An emergency vehicle, while its multi-toned horn and the flasher is on,
shall have the right of way over all the other vehicles.
(3) In a case of utmost emergency like saving a human life, warding off
serious damage to health of a person, prevent commission of a crime or damage
to essential services or fight a fire, the driver of the emergency vehicle with the
multi-toned horn and the multi-coloured flasher operating may, with utmost care,
responsibility and caution—
(i) cross a red traffic light;
(ii) exceed the specified speed limit;
(iii) drive on a highway hard shoulder; and
(iv) drive in either direction on a “NO ENTRY” or a “One Way” street.