MOTOR VEHICLES (GUJARAT AMENDMENT) ACT, 1978
GUJARAT ACT No. 19 OF 1978.
(First published after having received the assent of the President in the Gujarat Government Gazette” on the 18th March, 1978.)
An Act further to amend the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 in its application to the State of Gujarat.
It is hereby enacted in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:
Short title.
1. This Act may be called the Motor Vehicles (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 1978.
IV of 1949.
Insertion of new section 112A in IV of 1939.
2. In the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, in its application to the State of Gujarat, after section 112, the following section shall be inserted, namely:-
Compounding of offences under section 112.
“112A. (1) Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, the Regional Transport Officer or the Assistant Regional Transport Officer specially authorised in this behalf by the Regional Transport Officer may, either before or after the institution of proceedings for an offence under section 112, permit any person charged with such offence to compound the offence on payment of such sum not exceeding seventy five per cent of the maximum penalty provided in section 112, as the Regional Transport Officer or, as the case may be, the Assistant Regional Transport Officer may determine.
(2) On payment of such sum as may be determined by the Regional Transport Officer or, as the case may be, the Assistant Regional Transport Officer under sub-section (1) no further proceeding shall be taken against the person in respect of the same offence.
Explanation.—In this section, Regional Transport Officer” and “Assistant Regional Transport Officer” mean the officers appointed as such by the State Government.”. |
