Page 19 - The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

SECTION 2 THE MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988 5

(34) “public place” means a road, street, way or other place, whether a
thoroughfare or not, to which the public have a right of access, and includes
any place or stand at which passengers are picked-up or set down by a
stage carriage;
(35) “public service vehicle” means any motor vehicle used or adapted to be
used for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward, and includes a
maxicab, motorcab, contract carriage, and stage carriage;
(36) “registered axle weight” means in respect of the axle of any vehicle, the
axle weight certified and registered by the registering authority as
permissible for that axle;
(37) “registering authority” means an authority empowered to register motor
vehicles under Chapter IV;
(38) “route” means a line of travel which specifies the highway which may be
traversed by a motor vehicle between one terminus and another;
1 [(38A) “scheme” means a scheme framed under this Act;]
2 [(39) “semi-trailer” means a vehicle not mechanically propelled (other than a
trailer), which is intended to be connected to a motor vehicle and which is
so constructed that a portion of it is super-imposed on, and a part of whose
weight is borne by that motor vehicle;]
(40) “Stage carriage” means a motor vehicle constructed or adapted to carry
more than six passengers excluding the driver for hire or reward at separate
fares paid by or for individual passengers, either for the whole journey or
for stages of the journey;
(41) “State Government” in relation to a Union territory means the
Administrator thereof appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;
(42) “State transport undertaking” means any undertaking providing road
transport service, where such undertaking is carried on by—
(i) the Central Government or a State Government;
(ii) any Road Transport Corporation established under section 3 of the
Road Transport Corporations Act, 1950 (64 of 1950);
(iii) any municipality or any corporation or company owned or controlled
by the Central Government or one or more State Governments, or by
the Central Government and one or more State Governments.
3 [(iv) Zila Parishad or any other similar local authority.]
Explanation : For the purposes of this clause, “road transport service” means
a service of motor vehicles carrying passengers or goods or both by road
for hire or reward;

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.
2. Substituted by Act 54 of 1994, w.e.f. 14-11-1994.
3 Inserted, ibid.