Page 37 - The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

SECTION 26 THE MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988 23

(3) A person whose driving licence has been endorsed shall, if during a continuous
period of three years after such endorsement no further endorsement has been made
against him, be entitled on surrendering his driving licence and on payment of a fee of
five rupees, to receive a new driving licence free from all endorsements:
PROVIDED that if the endorsement is only in respect of an offence contravening
the speed limits referred to in section 112, such person shall be entitled to receive a new
driving licence free from such endorsement on the expiration of one year of the date of
the endorsement:
PROVIDED FURTHER that in reckoning the said period of three years and one
year, respectively, and period during which the said person was disqualified for holding
or obtaining a driving licence shall be excluded.
1 [25A. National Register of Driving Licences
(1) The Central Government shall maintain a National Register of Driving Licences
in such form and manner as may be prescribed.
(2) All State Registers of Driving Licences shall be subsumed under the National
Register of Driving Licences by a date to be notified by the Central Government.
(3) No driving licence issued, or renewed, under this Act shall be valid unless it
has been issued a unique driving licence number under the National Register of Driving
Licences.
(4) All State Governments and licensing authorities under this Act shall transmit
all information including contained data in the State Register of Driving Licences in
such form and manner as may be prescribed by the Central Government.
(5) The State Governments shall be entitled to access the National Register and
update their records in such manner as may be prescribed by the Central Government.]
2 [26. Maintenance of State Registers of Driving Licences

(1) Each State Government shall maintain, in such form as may be prescribed by
the Central Government, a register to be known as the State Register of Driving Licences,
in respect of driving licences issued and renewed by the licensing authorities of the
State Government, containing particulars, including,—

1 Inserted by the Motor Vehicles (Amdt.) Act, 2019 (32 of 2019), dt. 9-8-2019, w.e.f. 1-4-2021 vide SO
1433(E), dt. 31-3-2021.
2. Substituted, ibid. Prior to substitution, section 26 read as under:
“26. Maintenance of State Registers of driving licences
(1) Each State Government shall maintain, in such form as may be prescribed by the Central
Government, a register to be known as the State Register of Driving Licences, in respect of driving
licences issued and renewed by the licensing authorities of the State Government, containing the
following particulars, namely,—
(a) names and addresses of holders of driving licences;
(b) licence numbers;
(c) dates of issue or renewal of licences;
(d) dates of expiry of the licences;
(e) classes and types of vehicles authorised to be driven; and
(f) such other particulars as the Central Government may prescribe.
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(2) Each State Government shall supply to the Central Government a [printed copy or copy in
such other form as the Central Government may require], of the State Register of Driving Licences
and shall inform the Central Government without delay of all additions to and other amendments
in such register made from time to time.
(3) The State Register of Driving Licences shall be maintained in such manner as may be prescribed
by the State Government.”