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MVA, 1988
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MVAChapter IISection 16
Section16

Revocation of driving license on grounds of disease or disability

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Summary

Licensing authority can revoke a driving licence or require the holder to produce a medical certificate if it reasonably believes the person is unfit to drive because of a disease or disability. The medical certificate must be in the same form and manner required for licences. If a different authority revokes the licence, it must inform the authority that issued it.

Example

Rohan notices his eyesight worsening and a complaint reaches the regional licensing office. The licensing authority, reasonably believing he is unfit, asks Rohan to produce the prescribed medical certificate and warns that his driving licence may be revoked if he cannot. If the regional office that revokes the licence is different from the one that issued it, it will notify the issuing authority.

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Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sections, any licensing authority may at any time revoke a driving license or may require, as a condition of continuing to hold such driving license, the holder thereof to produce a medical certificate in the same form and in the same manner as is referred to in sub-section (3) of section 8, if the licensing authority has reasonable grounds to believe that the holder of the driving license is, by virtue of any disease or disability, unfit to drive a motor vehicle and where the authority revoking a driving license is not the authority which issued the same, it shall intimate the fact of revocation to the authority which issued that license.

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II

Chapter II

Licensing of Drivers of Motor Vehicles

In this chapter

  • 3Necessity for driving license
  • 4Age limit in connection with driving of motor vehicles
  • 5Responsibility of owners of motor vehicles for contravention of sections 3 and 4
  • 6Restrictions on the holding of driving licenses
  • 7Restrictions on the granting of learner’s licenses for certain vehicles
  • 8Grant of learner’s license
  • 9Grant of driving license
  • 10Form and contents of licenses to drive
  • 11Additions to driving license
  • 12Licensing and regulation of schools or establishments for imparting instruction in driving of motor vehicles
  • 13Extent of effectiveness of licenses, to drive motor vehicles
  • 14Currency of licenses to drive motor vehicles
  • 15Renewal of driving licenses
  • 16Revocation of driving license on grounds of disease or disability
  • 17Orders refusing or revoking driving licenses and appeals therefrom
  • 18Driving licenses to drive motor vehicles, belonging to the Central Government
  • 19Power of licensing authority to disqualify from holding a driving license or revoke such license
  • 20Power of Court to disqualify
  • 21Suspension of driving license in certain cases
  • 22Suspension or cancellation of driving license on conviction
  • 23Effect of disqualification order
  • 24Endorsement
  • 25Transfer of endorsement and issue of driving license free from endorsement
  • 26Maintenance of State Registers of Driving Licences
  • 27Power of Central Government to make rules
  • 28Power of State Government to make rules
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