Page 88 - The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

74 THE MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988 SECTION 88

PROVIDED that a goods carriage permit, granted by the Regional Transport
Authority of any one region, for any area in any other region or regions within the
same State, shall be valid in that area without the countersignature of the Regional
Transport Authority of the other region or of each of the other regions concerned:
PROVIDED FURTHER that where both starting point and the terminal point of a
route are situate within the same State, but part of such route lies in any other State and
the length or such part does not exceed sixteen kilometres, the permit shall be valid in
the other State in respect of that part of the route which is in that other State
notwithstanding that such permit has not been countersigned by the State Transport
Authority or the Regional Transport Authority of that other State :
PROVIDED ALSO that—
(a) where a motor vehicle covered by a permit granted in one State is to be
used for the purpose of defence in any other State, such vehicle shall display
a certificate, in such form, and issued by such Authority, as the Central
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, to the
effect that the vehicle shall be used for the period specified therein
exclusively for the purposes of defence; and
(b) any such permit shall be valid in that other State notwithstanding that
such permit has not been countersigned by the State Transport Authority
or the Regional Transport Authority of that other State.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), a permit granted or
countersigned by a State Transport Authority shall be valid in the whole State or in
such regions within the State as may be specified in the permit.
(3) A Regional Transport Authority when countersigning the permit may attach
to the permit any condition which it might have imposed if it had granted the permit
and may likewise vary any condition attached to the permit by the authority by which
the permit was granted.
(4) The provisions of this Chapter relating to the grant, revocation and suspension
of permits shall apply to the grant, revocation and suspension of countersignatures of
permits:
PROVIDED that it shall not be necessary to follow the procedure laid down in
section 80 for the grant of countersignatures of permits, where the permits granted in
any one State are required to be counter-signed by the State Transport Authority of
another State or by the Regional Transport Authority concerned as a result of any
agreement arrived at between the States after complying with the requirements of sub-
section (5).
(5) Every proposal to enter into an agreement between the States to fix the number
of permits which is proposed to be granted or counter-signed in respect of each route or
area, shall be published by each of the State Governments concerned in the Official
Gazette and in any one or more of the newspapers in the regional language circulating
in the area or route proposed to be covered by the agreement together with a notice of
the date before which representations in connection therewith may be submitted, and
the date not being less than thirty days from the date of publication in the Official
Gazette, on which, and the authority by which, and the time and place at which, the
proposal and any representation received in connection therewith will be considered.