Chapter XIII — Offences, Penalties and Procedure

Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 · Sections 177–210D

• 177General provision for punishment of offences.
• 177APenalty for contravention of regulations under section 118.
• 178Penalty for travelling without pass or ticket and for dereliction of duty on the part of conductor and refusal to ply contract carriage, etc.
• 179Disobedience of orders, obstruction and refusal of information.
• 180Allowing unauthorised persons to drive vehicles.
• 181Driving vehicles in contravention of section 3 or section 4.
• 182Offences relating to licences.
• 182APunishment for offences relating to construction, maintenance, sale and alteration of motor vehicles and components.
• 182BPenalty] for contravention of section 62A.
• 183Driving at excessive speed, etc.
• 184Driving dangerously.
• 185Driving by a drunken person or by a person under the influence of drugs.
• 186Driving when mentally or physically unfit to drive.
• 187Punishment for offences relating to accident.
• 188Punishment for abetment of certain offences.
• 189Racing and trials of speed.
• 190Using vehicle in unsafe condition.
• 191Sale of vehicle in or alteration of vehicle to condition contravening this Act. [Omitted or repealed]
• 192Using vehicle without registration.
• 192AUsing vehicle without permit.
• 192BOffences relating to registration.
• 193Punishment of [agents, canvassers and aggregators] without proper authority.
• 194Driving vehicle exceeding permissible weight.
• 194ACarriage of excess passengers.
• 194BUse of safety belts and the seating of children.
• 194CPenalty for violation of safety measures for motor cycle drivers and pillion riders.
• 194DPenalty for not wearing protective headgear.
• 194EFailure to allow free passage to emergency vehicles.
• 194FUse of horns and silence zones.
• 195Imposition of minimum fine under certain circumstances. [Omitted or repealed]
• 196Driving uninsured vehicle.
• 197Taking vehicle without authority.
• 198Unauthorised interference with vehicle.
• 198AFailure to comply with standards for road design, construction and maintenance.
• 199Offences by companies.
• 199AOffences by juveniles.
• 199BRevision of fines [and penalties].
• 200Composition of certain offences.
• 201Penalty for causing obstruction to free flow of traffic.
• 202Power to arrest without warrant.
• 203Breath tests.
• 204Laboratory test.
• 205Presumption of unfitness to drive.
• 206Power of police officer to impound document.
• 207Power to detain vehicles used without certificate of registration permit, etc.
• 208Summary disposal of cases.
• 209Restriction on conviction.
• 210Courts to send intimation about conviction.
• 210APower of State Government to increase [fine or] penalties.
• 210BPenalty for offence committed by an enforcing authority.
• 210CPower of Central Government to make rules.
• 210DPower of State Government to make rules.

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