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2 THE MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988 SECTION 2

(4) “certificate of registration” means the certificate issued by a competent
authority to the effect that motor vehicle has been duly registered in
accordance with the provisions of Chapter IV;
1 [(4A) “community service” means an unpaid work which a person is required
to perform as a punishment for an offence committed under this Act;]
(5) “conductor” in relation to a stage carriage, means a person engaged in
collecting fares from passengers, regulating their entrance into, or exit from,
the stage carriage and performing such other functions as may be
prescribed;
(6) “conductor’s licence” means the licence issued by a competent authority
under Chapter III authorising the person specified therein to act as a
conductor;
(7) “contract carriage” means a motor vehicle which carries a passenger or
passengers for hire or reward and is engaged under a contract, whether
expressed or implied, for the use of such vehicle as a whole for the carriage
of passengers mentioned therein and entered into by a person with a holder
of a permit in relation to such vehicle or any person authorised by him in
this behalf on a fixed or an agreed rate or sum,—
(a) on a time basis, whether or not with reference to any route or distance,
or
(b) from one point to another;
and in either case, without stopping to pick up or set down passengers not
included in the contract anywhere during the journey, and includes—
(i) a maxicab; and
(ii) a motorcab notwithstanding that separate fares are charged for
its passengers;
(8) “dealer” includes a person who is engaged—
(a) 2 [x x x]
(b) in building bodies for attachment to chassis; or
(c) in the repair of motor vehicles; or
(d) in the business of hypothecation, leasing or hire-purchase of motor
vehicle;
(9) “driver” includes, in relation to a motor vehicle which is drawn by another
motor vehicle, the person who acts as a steersman of the drawn vehicle;
1 [(9A) “driver refresher training course” means the course referred to in sub-
section (2A) of section 19;]
(10) “driving licence” means the licence issued by a competent authority under
Chapter II authorising the person specified therein to drive, otherwise than
as a learner, a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle of any specified class or
description;

1 Inserted 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.