The Motor Vehicles Act

General provision for punishment of offences

Penalty for contravention of regulations under section 118

Penalty for travelling without pass or ticket and for dereliction of duty on the part of conductor  and refusal to ply contract carriage, etc

Disobedience of orders, obstruction and refusal of information

Allowing unauthorised persons to drive vehicles

Driving vehicles in contravention of section 3 or section 4

Offences relating to licences

Punishment for offences relating to construction, maintenance, sale and alteration of motor vehicles and components

Punishment for contravention of section 62A

Driving at excessive speed, etc

Driving dangerously

Driving by a drunken person or by a person under the influence of drugs

Driving when mentally or phycically unfit to drive

Punishment for offences relating to accident

Punishment for abetment of certain offences

Racing and trials of speed

Using vehicle in unsafe condition

Omitted

Using vehicle without registration

Using vehicle without permit

Punishment of agents, canvassers and aggregators without proper authority

Driving vehicle exceeding permissible weight

Carriage of excess passengers

Use of safety belts and the seating of children

Penalty for violation of safety measures for motor cycle drivers and pillion riders

Penalty for not wearing protective headgea

Failure to allow free passage to emergency vehicles

Use of horns and silence zones

Driving uninsured vehicle

Taking vehicle without authority

Unauthorised interference with vehicle

Failure to comply with standards for road design, construction and maintenance

Offences by companies

Offences by juveniles

Revision of fines

Composition of certain offences

Penalty for causing obstruction to free flow of traffic

Power to arrest without warrant

Breath tests

Laboratory test

Presumption of unfitness to drive

Power of police officer to impound document

Power to detain vehicles used without certificate of registration permit, etc

Summary disposal of cases

Restriction on conviction

Courts to send intimation about conviction

Power of State Government to increase penalties

Penalty for offence committed by an enforcing authorit

Power of Central Government to make rules

Power of State Government to make rules


OFFENCES, PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE


1[210B. Penalty for offence committed by an enforcing authority.-- Any authority that is
empowered to enforce the provisions of this Act shall, if such authority commits an offence under this
Act, shall be liable for twice the penalty corresponding to that offence under this Act.]


LAWGIST

# 210B Penalty for offence committed by an enforcing authorit