Enhanced Penalties Under Amended Motor Vehicles Act to Become Applicable from Next Month

PIB, 28 August 2019, New Delhi: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has notified today, through S.O. No 3110(E), the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 2019 that will be applicable with effect from 1st of September 2019. These are provisions which require no further amendments in the Central Motor Vehicles Rules 1989. Important among the provisions notified today are the provisions  for enhanced penalties.

For the remaining provisions the Ministry has initiated the process of formulating draft rules. As and when the process is completed, the relevant provisions would be notified for implementation.

The attached table gives a brief of the provisions that have been notified today, and would be applicable from the 1st of September. Browse for details. Revised MVI Rules

Here is a list of the changes: 

Section/ Offence	Old Penalty	New Penalty (Minimum)
General (177)	Rs 100	Rs 500
Rules of road regulation violation (new 177A)	Rs. 100	Rs 500
Travelling without a ticket (178)	Rs 200	Rs 500
Disobedience of orders of authorities (179)	Rs 500	Rs 2000
Unauthorized use of vehicles without licence (180)	Rs 1000	Rs 5000
Driving without licence (181)	Rs 500	Rs 5000
Driving without qualification (182)	Rs 500	Rs 10,000
Oversized vehicles (182B)	New	Rs 5000
Over speeding (183)	Rs 400	Rs 1000 for LMV, Rs 2000 for Medium Passenger Vehicle
Dangerous driving penalty (184)	Rs. 1,000	Upto Rs 5000
Drunken driving (185)	Rs 2000	Rs 10,000
Speeding/ Racing (189)	Rs 500	Rs 5,000
Vehicle without permit (192A)	Upto Rs 5000	Upto Rs 10,000
Aggregators (violations of licencing conditions) (193)	New	Rs 25,000 to Rs 1,00,000
Overloading (194)	Rs 2,000, and Rs 1,000 per extra tonne	Rs 20,000, and Rs 2,000 per extra tonne
Overloading of Passengers (194A)	N.A.	Rs 1000 per extra passenger
Seat Belt (194 B)	Rs 100	Rs 1,000
Overloading of two-wheelers (194 C)	Rs 100	Rs 2,000 , Disqualification of licence for 3 months
Not providing way for emergency vehicles (194E)	New	Rs 10,000
Driving without insuarance (196)	Rs 1,000	Rs 2,000
Offences by Juveniles (199)	New	Guardian/ Owner shall be deemed guilty. Rs 25,000 with 3 years imprisonment. Juvenile to be tried under JJ Act. Registration of Motor Vehicle to be cancelled.
Power of officers to impound documents (206)	N.A.	Suspension of driving licence under sections 183, 184, 185, 189, 190, 194C, 194D, 194E,
Offences committed by enforcing authorities (210B)	N.A.	Twice the penalty under the relevant section