Chapter VIII — Control Of Traffic
Section 137 — Power of Central Government to make rules
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988)
Text of the section
Power of Central Government to make rules.—The Central Government may make rules to provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:— (a) the occasions on which signals shall be made by drivers of motor vehicles and such signals under section 121; (b) the manner in which the licences and certificates may be produced to the police officer under section 130.
Reproduced from the India Code text of the Act. Bracketed superscript numerals are the official footnote markers for earlier amendments.
Amended by the 2019 Amendment Act
In section 137 of the principal Act,— (i) after clause (a), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:— “(aa) providing for the standards of protective headgear and measures for the safety of children below the age of four years riding under section 129;”; (ii) after clause (b), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:— “(c) providing for limits of urban city by the State Governments under sub-section (1) of section 136A; and (d) providing for electronic monitoring and enforcement under sub-section (2) of section 136A.”. 49.
This is the amending instruction from the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 (Act 32 of 2019), quoted verbatim. Read it together with the text above — the consolidated version is the section as it reads once these changes are applied.
Before you rely on this. The base text above is the Act as consolidated by the India Code, which predates the 2019 amendment; any 2019 change is shown separately rather than merged in. Later amendments may also apply. For anything official, read the current text on the e-Gazette or the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways site.
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