Duty to furnish particulars of vehicle involved in accident
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Summary
A registering authority or the police officer must, on request and on payment of the prescribed fee, give any information they have about a vehicle involved in an accident to a person claiming compensation or to an insurer facing a claim. That includes identification marks, vehicle particulars, the name and address of the person using the vehicle or injured by it, and details of property damaged. Information must be supplied in the form and within the time the Central Government prescribes.
Example
Priya's scooter is hit by a car and she intends to claim compensation. She asks the police officer for details of the car and the driver. The officer must, on payment of the prescribed fee, provide the car's identification marks, vehicle particulars, the driver's name and address and any property-damage details in the prescribed form and time so Priya can pursue her claim.
Bare Act
Enacted textA registering authority or the officer-in-charge of a police station shall, if so required by a person who alleges that he is entitled to claim compensation in respect of an accident arising out of the use of a motor vehicle, or if so required by an insurer against whom a claim has been made in respect of any motor vehicle, furnish to that person or to that insurer, as the case may be, on payment of the prescribed fee any information at the disposal of the said authority or the said police officer relating to the identification marks and other particulars of the vehicle and the name and address of the person who was using the vehicle at the time of the accident or was injured by it and the property, if any, damaged in such form and within such time as the Central Government may prescribe.
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