The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill, 2019, to revise the terms under the Motor Vehicles Act of 1988. The Bill had before been passed by the Lok Sabha. The bill was recently presented in 2017 yet couldn’t pass the Rajya Sabha and slipped by with the disintegration of the sixteenth Lok Sabha. The 2019 Bill was presented in the Rajya Sabha by the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari. The Bill intends to authorize stricter punishments for traffic violations.
The new Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill have some new list of offense which was not available there is the old laws. Now if you break the rule you have to pay a higher amount than offense
| Offense | Old Penalty(Rupees) | New Penalty (Minimum in Rupees) |
| General (177) | 100 | 500 |
| Rules of road regulation violation (new 177A) | 100 | 500 |
| Traveling without a ticket (178) | 200 | 500 |
| Disobedience of orders of authorities (179) | 500 | 2000 |
| Unauthorized use of vehicles without a license (180) | 1000 | 5000 |
| Driving without a license (181) | 500 | 5000 |
| Driving without qualification (182) | 500 | 10000 |
| Oversized vehicles (182B) | – | 5000 |
| Over speeding (183) | 400 | Rs 1000 for LMV, Rs 2000 for Medium Passenger Vehicle |
| Dangerous driving penalty(184) | 1000 | upto 5000 |
| Drunken driving (185) | 2000 | 10000 |
| Speeding/ Racing (189) | 500 | 5000 |
| Vehicle without permit (192A) | upto 5000 | upto 10000 |
| Aggregators (violations of licencing conditions) (193) | – | 25000 to 100000 |
| Overloading (194) | 2000 & 1000/extra ton | 20000 & 2000/extra ton |
| Overloading of Passengers (194A) | – | 1000/extra pessenger |
| Seat Belt (194 B) | 100 | 1000 |
| Overloading of two-wheelers (194 C) | 100 | 2000, Suspension of license for 3 months |
| Not providing way for emergency vehicles (194E) | – | 10000 |
| Driving without insuarance (196) | 1000 | 2000 |
| Offences by Juveniles (199) | – | Parents/Owner will be considered blameworthy. ₹ 25,000 with 3 years imprisonment. Juvenile to be attempted under the JJ Act. Enrollment of Motor Vehicle to be dropped. |
| Power of officers to impound documents (206) | – | Suspension of driving permit under areas 183, 184, 185, 189, 190, 194C, 194D, 194E |
| Offences committed by enforcing authorities (210B | – | Double the punishment under the appropriate section |
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