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RULE 3 MOTOR VEHICLES (REGISTRATION.....FACILITY) RULES, 2021 829

(e) “Collection Centre” means a facility or an area that may be used for the
sole purpose of collecting and storing the End of Life Vehicles and sending
it for further processing at the Scrapping Yard;
(f) “End-of-Life Vehicles” means all vehicles which are no longer validly
registered or declared unfit through Automated Fitness Centres or their
registrations have been cancelled under Chapter IV of the Act or due to
an order of a Court of Law or are self-declared by the legitimate registered
owner as a waste vehicle due to any circumstances as specified in these
rules;
(g) “Final Disposal” means the treatment of the vehicle so that the vehicle is
no longer capable of being used as such, the evidence for which is the cut
out of the Chassis and the disposal of its engine;
(h) “Recycling” means the reclamation and processing of waste in an
environmentally sound manner for the original purpose or other;
(i) “Registered owner of an End of Life Vehicle” means,—
(i) owner of the vehicle as defined in clause (30) of section 2 of the
Act; or
(ii) person who has gained ownership of the vehicle in a public
auction in accordance with rule 57 of the Central Motor Vehicles
Rules, 1989;
(j) “Registered Scrapper” means a person, firm, society, trust or company
owning and operating a Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility;
(k) “Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility” means any establishment which
holds a Registration for Vehicle Scrapping issued under these rules for
carrying out dismantling and scrapping operations;
(l) “Registration Authority” means the officer not below the rank of the
Commissioner (Transport) as designated by the Government of the State
or Union territory for this purpose;
(m) “Scrapping” means the entire process from receipt and record of the ‘End-
of-Life Vehicles‘ including depolluting, dismantling, segregation of
material, safe disposal of non-reusable parts, and issuance of Certificate
of Vehicle Scrapping to the registered owner of a motor vehicle;
(n) “Scrapping Yard” means the designated location within the premises of
the Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility where the End-of-life Vehicles
are processed for further treatment including recycling;
(o) “Treatment” means any activity after the end of life vehicle has been
handed over to a collection centre of a Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility
for depollution, dismantling, shearing, shredding, recovery or preparation
for disposal of the shredder wastes, and any other operation carried out
for the recovery or disposal of the end of life vehicle and its components;
and
(p) “Vehicle” means a motor vehicle or vehicle as defined in clause (28) of
section 2 of the Act.