Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (AIBE)

This 2025 edition of The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988) presents India’s complete statutory code on road-traffic regulation, vehicle registration, driver licensing, permits, and motor-accident liability. All current amendments are fully consolidated—including the transformative Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 (Act 32 of 2019, multiple SOs, w.e.f. 1-9-2019) and the decriminalisation updates under the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023 (Act 18 of 2023, w.e.f. 11-5-2023)—guaranteeing perfect alignment with today’s legal framework.

The Act comprehensively regulates:
• Registration & fitness of transport and non-transport vehicles, hypothecation entries, and re-registration
• Driver licensing—learner, permanent, commercial, conductor, and e-vehicle categories, with Aadhaar-linked verification
• National & inter-State permits, stage-carriage contracts, goods-carriage operations, and aggregator compliance
• Road-safety enforcement—speed limits, helmets/seat-belts, drunk-driving, electronic monitoring, and traffic-offence penalties (enhanced 2019)
• Motor accident claims—third-party insurance, no-fault liability, hit-and-run compensation funds, and new cashless claims provisions
• Recall, type-approval & vehicle-defect penalties introduced in 2019 for consumer and environmental safety

Presented without annotations, commentary, or case law, this Bare Act reproduces the statute verbatim—ideal for precise legal practice, regulatory compliance, and focused academic study.

This edition is particularly suitable for:
• AIBE aspirants and law students studying transport and road-safety law
• Civil-service, judicial-service, and other competitive-exam candidates who need an unaltered statute
• Practising advocates, claims consultants, insurers, fleet operators, and ride-aggregators navigating licensing, permits, and accident litigation
• Policy makers, enforcement agencies, and researchers analysing traffic reforms, decriminalisation, and road-safety strategies

By providing the exact legislative language—free of editorial additions—this edition guarantees clarity, authenticity, and reliability for courtroom citation, classroom instruction, and rigorous scholarly work.