Page 67 - The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

SECTION 66 THE MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988 53

PROVIDED ALSO that a goods carriage permit shall, subject to any conditions
that may be specified in the permit, authorise the holder to use the vehicle for the carriage
of goods for or in connection with a trade or business carried on by him:
1 [PROVIDED ALSO that where a transport vehicle has been issued any permit or
permits, as well as a licence under this Act, such vehicle may be used either under the
permit, or permits, so issued to it, or under such licence, at the discretion of the vehicle
owner.]
(2) The holder of a goods carriage permit may use the vehicle, for the drawing of
any trailer or semi-trailer not owned by him, subject to such conditions as may be
prescribed:
2 [PROVIDED that the holder of a permit of any articulated vehicle may use the
prime-mover of that articulated vehicle for any other semi-trailer.]
(3) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall not apply:—
(a) to any transport vehicle owned by the Central Government or a State
Government and used for government purposes unconnected with any
commercial enterprise;
(b) to any transport vehicle owned by a local authority or by a person acting
under contract with a local authority and used solely for road cleaning,
road watering or conservance purposes;
(c) to any transport vehicle used solely for police, fire brigade or ambulance
purposes;
(d) to any transport vehicle used solely for the conveyance of corpses and the
mourners accompanying the corpses;
(e) to any transport vehicle used for towing a disabled vehicle or for removing
goods from a disabled vehicle to a place of safety;
(f) to any transport vehicle used for any other public purpose as may be
prescribed by the State Government in this behalf;
(g) to any transport vehicle used by a person who manufactures or deals in
motor vehicles or builds bodies for attachment to chassis, solely for such
purposes and in accordance with such conditions as the Central
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this
behalf;
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(i) to any goods vehicle, the gross vehicle weight of which does not exceed
3,000 kilograms;
(j) subject to such conditions as the Central Government may, by notification
in the Official Gazette, specify, to any transport vehicle purchased in one
State and proceeding to a place, situated in that State or in any other State,
without carrying any passenger or goods;
(k) to any transport vehicle which has been temporarily registered under
section 43 while proceeding empty to any place for the purpose of
registration of the vehicle;

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. Inserted by Act 54 of 1994, w.e.f. 14-11-1994.
3 Clause (h) omitted by Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2000 (27 of 2000), w.e.f. 11-8-2000.