Temporary permits
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Summary
A Regional Transport Authority or State Transport Authority can grant short-term permits without the usual procedure, normally up to four months, to allow temporary use of a vehicle for fairs, religious gatherings, seasonal business, a particular temporary need, or while a renewal application is pending. They may attach conditions. For goods carriages, in exceptional cases and with reasons recorded, a temporary permit may be extended up to one year. Where regular permits are restrained or suspended for a route, temporary permits may be issued only for the restraint/suspension period and only up to the number of affected vehicles.
Example
Priya needs extra buses to run to a religious fair for two months. The Regional Transport Authority grants a temporary permit without the full procedure, valid for three months and with a fixed-route condition. If regular permits in that area were suspended, the Authority could only issue as many temporary permits as there are suspended vehicles and only for the suspension period.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) A Regional Transport Authority and the State Transport Authority may without following the procedure laid down in section 80, grant permits to be effective for a limited period which shall, not in any case exceed four months, to authorise the use of a transport vehicle temporarily—
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(a) for the conveyance of passengers on special occasions such as to and from fairs and religious gatherings, or
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(b) for the purposes of a seasonal business, or
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(c) to meet a particular temporary need, or
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(d) pending decision on an application for the renewal of a permit, and may attach to any such permit such condition as it may think fit:
Provided that a Regional Transport Authority or, as the case may be, State Transport Authority may, in the case of goods carriages, under the circumstances of an exceptional nature, and for reasons to be recorded in writing, grant a permit for a period exceeding four months, but not exceeding one year.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), a temporary permit may be granted thereunder in respect of any route or area where—
(i) no permit could be issued under section 72 or section 74 or section 76 or section 79 in respect of that route or area by reason of an order of a Court or other competent authority restraining the issue of the same, for a period not exceeding the period for which the issue of the permit has been so restrained;
(ii) as a result of the suspension by a Court or other competent authority of the permit of any vehicle in respect of that route or area, there is no transport vehicle of the same class with a valid permit in respect of that route or area, or there is no adequate number of such vehicles in respect of that route or area, for a period not exceeding the period of such suspension:
Provided that the number of transport vehicles in respect of which temporary permits are so granted shall not exceed the number of vehicles in respect of which the issue of the permits have been restrained or, as the case may be, the permit has been suspended.
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