MVAChapter I

S. 1

Short title, extent and commencement

Description

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:

  1. This Act may be called the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
  2. It extends to the whole of India.
  3. 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.