Preamble
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to motor vehicles.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:
- This Act may be called the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
- It extends to the whole of India.
- It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different States and any reference in this Act to the commencement of this Act shall, in relation to a State, be construed as a reference to the coming into force of this Act in that State.
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