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164 THE MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988 SECTION 212
1 [211A. Use of electronic forms and documents

(1) Where any provision of this Act or the rules and regulations made thereunder
provides for—
(a) the filing of any form, application or any other document with any office,
authority, body or agency owned or controlled by the Central Government
or the State Government in a particular manner;
(b) the issue or grant of any licence, permit, sanction, approval or endorsement,
by whatever name called in a particular manner; or
(c) the receipt or payment of money in a particular manner,
then notwithstanding anything contained in such provision, such requirement shall be
deemed to have been satisfied if such filing, issue, grant, receipt or payment, as the case
may be, is effected by means of such electronic form as may be prescribed by the Central
Government or the State Government, as the case may be.
(2) The Central Government or the State Government shall, for the purpose of
sub-section (1), prescribe—
(a) the manner and format in which such electronic forms and documents
shall be filed, created or issued; and
(b) the manner or method of payment of any fee or charges for filing, creation
or issue of any electronic document under clause (a).]
212. Publication, commencement and laying of rules and notifications
(1) The power to make rules under this Act is subject to the condition of the rules
being made after previous publication.
(2) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Official Gazette, and
shall unless some later date is appointed, come into force on the date of such publication.
(3) Every rule made by any State Government shall be laid, as soon as may be
after it is made before the State Legislature.
(4) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act, every scheme
made by the Central Government under sub-section (1) of section 75 and sub-section
(1) of section 163 and every notification issued by the Central Government under sub-
section (4) of section 41, sub-section (1) of section 58, sub-section (1) of section 59, the
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proviso to sub-section (1) of section 112, [section 118], sub-section (4) of section 163A,
1 [section 164, section 177A] and sub-section (4) of section 213 shall be laid, as soon as
may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total
period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive
sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or
the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the
rule, scheme or notification or both Houses agree that the rule or scheme should not be
made or the notification should not be issued, the rule, scheme or notification shall
thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be;
so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the
validity of anything previously done under that rule, scheme or notification.
1 Inserted by the Motor Vehicles (Amdt.) Act, 2019 (32 of 2019), dt. 9-8-2019, w.e.f. 1-10-2020 vide
SO 3311(E), dt. 25-9-2020.
2. 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.