Page 52 - The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

(lii) THE MOTOR VEHICLES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019

Explanation : For the removal of doubts, it is hereby clarified that such
deemed transfer shall include transfer of rights and liabilities of the said
certificate of insurance and policy of insurance.
(2) The transferee shall apply within fourteen days from the date of transfer
in the prescribed form to the insurer for making necessary changes in regard to
the fact of transfer in the certificate of insurance and the policy described in the
certificate in his favour, and the insurer shall make the necessary changes in
the certificate and the policy of insurance in regard to the transfer of insurance.
158. Production of certain certificates, licence and permit in certain cases
(1) Any person driving a motor vehicle in any public place shall, on being
so required by a police officer in uniform authorised in this behalf by the State
Government, produce—
(a) the certificate of insurance;
(b) the certificate of registration;
(c) the pollution under control certificate;
(d) the driving licence;
(e) in the case of a transport vehicle, also the certificate of fitness referred to
in section 56, and the permit; and
(f) any certificate or authorisation of exemption that has been granted under
this Act,
relating to the use of the vehicle.
(2) Where, owing to the presence of a motor vehicle in a public place, an
accident occurs involving death or bodily injury to another person, if the driver
of the vehicle does not at that time produce the required certificate, driving
licence and permit referred to in sub-section (1) to a police officer, he or the
owner shall produce the said certificates, licence and permit at the police station
at which the driver makes the report required by section 134.
(3) No person shall be liable to conviction for offences under sub-section
(1) or sub-section (2) by reason of the failure to produce the required certificate
if, within seven days from the date on which its production was required under
sub-section (1), or as the case may be, from the date of occurrence of the accident,
he produces the certificate at such police station as may have been specified by
him to the police officer who required its production or, as the case may be, to
the police officer at the site of the accident or to the officer-in-charge of the
police station at which he reported the accident:
PROVIDED that except to such extent and with such modifications as
may be prescribed, the provisions of this sub-section shall not apply to the
driver of a transport vehicle.
(4) The owner of a motor vehicle shall give such information as he may be
required by or on behalf of a police officer empowered in this behalf by the
State Government for the purpose of determining whether the vehicle was or
was not being driven in contravention of section 146 and on any occasion when
the driver was required under this section to produce the certificate of insurance.
(5) In this section, the expression “produce the certificate of insurance”
means production for examination the relevant certificate of insurance or such