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MVA, 1988
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MVAChapter IVSection 40
Section40

Registration, where to be made

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Every motor vehicle owner must register the vehicle with the registering authority that has jurisdiction over the owner’s residence or place of business where the vehicle is normally kept. The rule applies subject to the limits in sections 42, 43 and 60. Consequence: registration is to be done at that local authority.

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Priya buys a car and keeps it at her home in the locality she lives. She must get the car registered with the registering authority that covers her residence, not with an authority elsewhere. The registration will therefore be completed at her local registering authority.

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Subject to the provisions of section 42, section 43 and section 60, every owner of a motor vehicle shall cause the vehicle to be registered by a registering authority in whose jurisdiction he has the residence or place of business where the vehicle is normally kept.

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IV

Chapter IV

Registration of Motor Vehicles

In this chapter

  • 39Necessity for registration
  • 40Registration, where to be made
  • 41Registration, how to be made
  • 42Special provision for registration of motor vehicles of diplomatic officers, etc
  • 43Temporary registration
  • 44Production of vehicle at the time of registration
  • 45Refusal of registration or renewal of the certificate of registration
  • 46Effectiveness in India of registration
  • 47Assignment of new registration mark on removal to another State
  • 48No objection certificate
  • 49Change of residence or place of business
  • 50Transfer of ownership
  • 51Special provisions regarding motor vehicle subject to hire-purchase agreement, etc
  • 52Alteration in motor vehicle
  • 53Suspension of registration
  • 54Cancellation of registration suspended under section 53
  • 55Cancellation of registration
  • 56Certificate of fitness of transport vehicles
  • 57Appeals
  • 58Special provisions in regard to transport vehicles
  • 59Power to fix the age limit of motor vehicle
  • 60Registration of vehicles belonging to the Central Government
  • 61Application of Chapter to trailers
  • 62Information regarding stolen and recovered motor vehicles to be furnished by the police to the State Transport Authority
  • 63Maintenance of State Registers of Motor Vehicles
  • 64Power of Central Government to make rules
  • 65Power of State Government to make rules
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