Page 63 - The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

SECTION 64 THE MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988 49

62B. National Register of Motor Vehicles
(1) The Central Government shall maintain a National Register of Motor Vehicles
in such form and manner as may be prescribed by it:
PROVIDED that all State Registers of Motor Vehicles shall be subsumed under
the National Register of Motor Vehicles by such date as may be notified in the Official
Gazette by the Central Government.
(2) No certificate of registration issued, or renewed, under this Act shall be valid
unless it has been issued a unique registration number under the National Register of
Motor Vehicles.
(3) In order to maintain the National Register of Motor Vehicles, all State
Governments and registering authorities under this Act shall transmit all information
and data in the State Register of Motor Vehicles to the Central Government in such
form and manner as may be prescribed by the Central Government.
(4) State Governments shall be able to access the National Register of Motor Vehicles
and update records in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made by
the Central Government thereunder.]
1 [63. Maintenance of State Registers of Motor Vehicles
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 Motor Vehicles,
in respect of the motor vehicles in that State, containing the particulars including—
(a) registration numbers;
(b) years of manufacture;
(c) classes and types;
(d) names and addresses of registered owners; and
(e) such other particulars as may be prescribed by the Central Government.]
64. Power of Central Government to make rules
The Central Government may make rules to provide for all or any of the following
matters, namely,—
(a) the period within which and the form in which an application shall be
made and the documents, particulars and information it shall accompany
under sub-section (1) of section 41;
1 Substituted 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. Prior to substitution, section 63 read as under:
“63. Maintenance of State Registers of Motor Vehicles
(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 Motor Vehicles, in respect of the motor
vehicles in that State, containing the following particulars, namely,—
(a) registration numbers;
(b) years of manufacture;
(c) classes and types;
(d) names and addresses of registered owners; and
(e) such other particulars as may be prescribed by the Central Government.
(2) Each State Government shall supply to the Central Government if so desired by it a printed
copy of the State Register of Motor Vehicles and shall also 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 Motor Vehicles shall be maintained in such manner as may be prescribed
by the State Government.”