Proposed Amendments in Various Penalties under Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill – 2019

Section Old Provision / Penalty New Proposed Provision /



Minimum Penalties



177 General Rs 100 Rs 500 New 177A Rules of road regulation

violation



Rs 100 Rs 500 178 Travel without ticket

Rs 200 Rs 500 179 Disobedience of orders of

authorities



Rs 500 Rs 2000 180 Unautorized use of vehicles without licence



Rs 1000 Rs 5000 181 Driving without licence Rs 500 Rs 5000 182 Driving despite



disqualification



Rs 500 Rs 10,000 182 B Oversize vehicles New Rs 5000 183 Over speeding Rs 400 Rs 1000 for LMV



Rs 2000 for Medium



passenger vehicle



184 Dangerous driving penalty Rs 1000 Upto Rs 5000 185 Drunken driving Rs 2000 Rs 10,000 189 Speeding / Racing Rs 500 Rs 5,000 192 A Vehicle without permit upto Rs 5000 Upto Rs 10,000 193 Aggregators (violations of licencing conditions)



New Rs 25,000 to

Rs 1,00,000

194 Overloading Rs 2000 and

Rs 1000 per extra tonne



Rs 20,000 and

Rs 2000 per extra tonne



194 A Overloading of passengers Rs 1000 per extra

passenger

194 B Seat belt Rs 100 Rs 1000 194 C Overloading of two wheelers



Rs 100 Rs 2000, Disqualification

for 3 months for licence

194 D Helmets Rs 100 Rs 1000 Disqualification



for 3 months for licence



194 E Not providing way for

emergency vehicles



New Rs 10,000 196 Driving Without Insurance Rs 1000 Rs 2000 199 Offences by Juveniles New Guardian / owner shall be

deemed to be guilty. Rs

25,000 with 3 yrs

imprisonment. For Juvenile

to be tried under JJ Act.

Registration of Motor

Vehicle to be cancelled



206 Power of Officers to impound documents



Suspension of driving

licenses u/s 183, 184, 185,

189, 190, 194C, 194D,

194E



210 B Offences committed by enforcing authorities



Twice the penalty under the

relevant section





NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday cleared the bill to amend 30-year old motor vehicle law to improve road safety, raise penalties for traffic violations, curb RTO (Regional Transport Office) corruption and other measures to transform the transport sector.The legislation provides for stricter punishment for various traffic related offences as well as higher penalties, including a compensation of Rs 5 lakh for death and Rs 2.5 lakh for grievous injury in a motor vehicle accident case.It proposes Rs 10,000 fine for not giving way to emergency vehicles and Rs 10,000 for driving despite disqualification. Aggregators violating driving licences will be fined up to Rs 1 lakh.The bill includes penalties in the range of Rs 1,000- 2,000 for over-speeding Driving without insurance will be punishable with Rs 2,000 fine, while driving without helmets will attract Rs 1,000 penalty and 3-month suspension of licence.Also, the guardian/owner will be deemed guilty in case of road offence by juveniles, while registration of the vehicle will be cancelled.As per the new provisions, "guardian/owner shall be deemed to be guilty and there will be a penalty of Rs 25,000 with three years imprisonment and cancellation of registration of the Motor Vehicle".Traffic violations would now attract a penalty of Rs 500 in place of Rs 100 earlier, while disobedience of orders of authorities will attract a minimum penalty of Rs 2,000 in place of Rs 500 earlier.Penalty for unauthorised use of vehicles without licence has been proposed at Rs 5,000 while those driving without licence will have to shell out the same amount and those found driving despite disqualification would be fined Rs 10,000.Penalty for dangerous driving would be increased to Rs 5,000 from Rs 1,000, while drunken driving under the proposed new law would attract a fine of Rs 10,000."If aggregators are found violating lincensing conditions, they will be charged a sum of up to Rs 1 lakh" while overloading of vehicles would attract a penalty of Rs 20,000.