Chapter IV — Registration Of Motor Vehicles
Section 47 — Assignment of new registration mark on removal to another State
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988)
Text of the section
Assignment of new registration mark on removal to another State.—(1) When a motor vehicle registered in one State has been kept in another State, for a period exceeding twelve months, the owner of the vehicle shall, within such period and in such form containing such particulars as may be prescribed by the Central Government, apply to the registering authority, within whose jurisdiction the vehicle then is, for the assignment of a new registration mark and shall present the certificate of registration to that registering authority: Provided that an application under this sub-section shall be accompanied— (i) by the no objection certificate obtained under section 48, or (ii) in a case where no such certificate has been obtained, by— (a) the receipt obtained under sub-section (2) of section 48; or
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