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SECTION 180 THE MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988 143

examination or to deliver up his pass or ticket immediately on a requisition being made
therefor, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
Explanation : In this section, “pass” and “ticket” have the meanings respectively
assigned to them in section 124.
(2) If the conductor of a stage carriage, or the driver of a stage carriage performing
the functions of a conductor in such stage carriage, whose duty is—
(a) to supply a ticket to a person travelling in a stage carriage on a payment
of fare by such person, either wilfully or negligently—
(i) fails or refuses to accept the fare when tendered, or
(ii) fails or refuses to supply a ticket, or
(iii) supplies an invalid ticket, or
(iv) supplies a ticket of a lesser value, or
(b) to check any pass or ticket, either wilfully or negligently fails or refuses to
do so,
he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
(3) If the holder of a permit or the driver of a contract carriage refuses, in
contravention of the provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder, to ply the contract
carriage or to carry the passengers, he shall—
(a) in the case of two-wheeled or three-wheeled motor vehicles, be punishable
with fine which may extend to fifty rupees; and
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(b) in any other case, be punishable with fine which may extend to [five
hundred rupees].
179. Disobedience of order, obstruction and refusal of information
(1) Whoever wilfully disobeys any direction lawfully given by any person or
authority empowered under this Act to give such direction, or obstructs any person or
authority in the discharge of any functions which such person or authority is required
or empowered under this Act to discharge, shall, if no other penalty is provided for the
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offence be punishable with fine which may extend to [two thousand rupees].
(2) Whoever, being required by or under this Act to supply any information wilfully
withholds such information or gives information which he knows to be false or which
he does not believe to be true, shall, if no other penalty is provided for the offence, be
punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine
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which may extend to [two thousand rupees], or with both.
180. Allowing unauthorised persons to drive vehicles
Whoever, being the owner or person in charge of a motor vehicle, causes or permits,
any other person who does not satisfy the provisions of section 3 or section 4 to drive
the vehicle shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
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three months, or with fine [of five thousand rupees], or with both.
1. Substituted for “two hundred rupees” by the Motor Vehicles (Amdt.) Act, 2019 (32 of 2019),
dt. 9-8-2019, w.e.f. 1-9-2019 vide SO 3110(E), dt. 28-8-2019.
2. Substituted for “five hundred rupees”, ibid.
3. Substituted for “which may extend to one thousand rupees”, ibid.