Production of certain certificates, license and permit in certain cases
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Summary
On request by a uniformed, State‑authorised police officer, a driver must produce registration, driving licence and insurance; transport vehicles must also produce fitness certificate and permit. If an accident causes death or bodily injury and documents are not shown at the scene, the driver must produce them at the police station where he files the report. Producing the insurance at that station within seven days bars conviction for mere non‑production (subject to stricter rules for transport vehicles). Police must forward accident reports within 30 days to the Claims Tribunal and the insurer, and owners must give information police ask to check section 146.
Example
Rohan's truck injures a motorcyclist. At the scene he cannot find his documents, so when he goes to the police station to file the report he produces the registration, driving licence, fitness certificate and permit. He also gives the insurance certificate within seven days, so he will not be convicted only for failing to produce the insurance at the scene. The police will forward the report to the Claims Tribunal and the insurer.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) Any person driving a motor vehicle in any public place shall, on being so required by a police officer in uniform authorised in this behalf by the State Government, produce—
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(a) the certificate of insurance;
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(b) the certificate of registration;
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(c) the driving license; and
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(d) in the case of a transport vehicle, also the certificate of fitness referred to in section 56 and the permit, relating to the use of the vehicle.
(2) If, where owing to the presence of a motor vehicle in a public place an accident occurs involving death or bodily injury to another person, the driver of the vehicle does not at the time produce the certificates, driving license and permit referred to in sub-section (1) to a police officer, he shall produce the said certificates, license and permit at the police station at which he makes the report required by section 134.
(3) No person shall be liable to conviction under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) by reason only of the failure to produce the certificate of insurance if, within seven days from the date on which its production was required under sub-section (1), or as the case may be, from the date of occurrence of the accident, he produces the certificate at such police station as may have been specified by him to the police officer who required its production or, as the case may be, to the police officer at the site of the accident or to the officer-in-charge of the police station at which he reported the accident:
Provided that except to such extent and with such modifications as may be prescribed, the provisions of this sub-section shall not apply to the driver of a transport vehicle.
(4) The owner of a motor vehicle shall give such information as he may be required by or on behalf of a police officer empowered in this behalf by the State Government to give for the purpose of determining whether the vehicle was or was not being driven in contravention of section 146 and on any occasion when the driver was required under this section to produce his certificate of insurance.
(5) In this section, the expression “produce his certificate of insurance” means produce for examination the relevant certificate of insurance or such other evidence as may be prescribed that the vehicle was not being driven in contravention of section 146. (6) As soon as any information regarding any accident involving death or bodily injury to any person is recorded or report under this section is completed by a police officer, the officer incharge of the police station shall forward a copy of the same within thirty days from the date of recording of information or, as the case may be, on completion of such report to the Claims Tribunal having jurisdiction and a copy thereof to the concerned insurer, and where a copy is made available to the owner, he shall also within thirty days of receipt of such report, forward the same to such Claims Tribunal and Insurer.
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