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Assam State Road Transport Act, 1954
Assam State Road Transport Act, 1954
Sections
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Power of the State Government to run Road Transport Services.
Section 34. Scheme of State Road Transport Services.
Section 45. Objections to the scheme.
Section 56. Alteration or modification of scheme.
Section 67. Consequences of the publication of the scheme under section 5.
Section 58. Transport Commissioner.
Section 89. Delegation of powers.
Section 910. Repeals.
Section 1011. Use of public service vehicle in contravention of section 7 to be an offence.
Section 712. Cognizance of offence.
Section 1213. Validation.
Section 1314. Authorisation in respect of public carrier or contract carriage owned by State Government.
Section 1415. Power to make rule.
Section 151. Pandu-Gauhati-Shillong Road.
Section 12. Gauhati-Nowgong Road.
Section 23. Nowgong-Jorhat Road (including Koliabor-Silghat-Jakhlabandba Sector).
Section 34. Jorhat-Dibrugarh Road.
Section 45. Dibrugarh-Saikhowaghat Road.
Section 56. Gauhati-Goalpara Road.
Section 67. Dhubri-Jogighopa Road.
Section 7
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"content": "(a) \" appointed date\" means the date immediately preceding the commencement of this Act ;\n(b) \" prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;\n(c) \" public service vehicle\" has the meaning assigned to it in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939), and also includes a public carrier ;\n(d) \" route\" means a road or roads, part or parts of a road or roads over which a transport' vehicle may be authorised to be used under a permit granted or which, but for this Act, would have been granted under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939);\n(e) \" State Road Transport Service\" means Transport Service by a public service vehicle owned by the State Government ;\n(f) \"State Government\" means the Government of Assam ;\n(g) \" State Road Transport Board\" means a Board constituted by the Government of Assam under the Act with a view to manage, control and supervise the State Road Transport Services ;\n(h) \"Transport Commissioner\" means the Transport Commissioner of Assam appointed by the State Government and includes any other officer who may be authorized by the State Government to perform the functions of the Transport Commissioner under this Act ; and\n(i) Words and expressions not de-find in this Act, but defined in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939), have the meaning assigned to them in the said Act.",
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"content": "(a) the date on which the State Road Transport Service shall commence to operate ;\n(b) the route or any portion thereof on which the State Road Transport Service shall be provided ;\n(c) the State Road Transport Services which are to be provided on the route or any portion thereof and for prohibiting or restricting the provision on the route or its portion of transport services otherwise than under the scheme ;\n(d) the extent to which persons other than the State Government will be permitted to provide road transport services on the route or any portion thereof specified in clause (A) ;\n(e) the road transport services which will be provided by the State Government exclusively or by the State Government in conjunction with Railway ;\n(f) the type and carrying capacity of transport vehicles to be used in such services ;\n(g) the cancellation or the modification of the existing permits granted under Chapter IV of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939) ;\n(h) the reduction in the number of transport vehicles plying on the route ;\n(i) the curtailment of the route covered by the existing permits or transfer of the permits to any other route or routes ; and\n(j) the convenience of the ordinary class of passengers\n(k) such other consequential or' incidental matters as may appear necessary or expedient for the purposes of the scheme.",
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"content": "(a) The State Government may, in the case of Transport Vehicles to be used by the State Government or by the State Government in conjunction with Railway provide for dispensation from observance of the provisions of Chapter IV of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939) as respects-\n(i) the necessity of taking out or granting or countersigning permits ;\n(ii) the duration and renewal of permits ;\n(iii) the conditions attached to permits ;\n(iv) the cancellation and suspension of permits ;\n(v) the restrictions on the number of permits, as it may notify in that behalf in the official Gazette.\n(b) No person (other than the State Government either singly or in conjunction with Railway) shall except as may be provided under clause (c) be entitled to a permit under Chapter IV of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939).\n(c) The State Government may specify the number of transport vehicles, if any, for which the permits may be granted or countersigned in favour of persons other than the State Government or the State Government and the Railway conjointly.\n(d) The State Government or any officer or authority empowered by it in this behalf may, in the manner prescribed, cancel any permit or direct that any permit or class of permits shall not be renewed or shall not be effective beyond such date as may be specified or reduced and curtail the number of vehicles or routes covered by any permit or alter the conditions attached to any permit or attach any new condition to any permit granted ' under Chapter IV of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939).\n(e) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, direct that all or any of the functions, duties and powers under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939) of the State Transport Authority, the Regional Transport Authority, the Registering Authority or the Licensing Authority shall to the extent and in the manner specified in the notification, be discharged, performed or exercised by such officer or other authority as may be specified in the notification.\n(f) The State Government may for purposes of this Act issue directions, as it considers necessary, to the State Transport Authority, Regional Transport Authority or any other authority or officer and such officer or authority shall forthwith give effect to all such orders and directions.",
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"content": "(i) State Road Transport Service commenced before the appointed date and operating on any route at such date, and\n(ii) Order cancelling or curtailing any permit for transport vehicle, or attaching any new condition or altering the conditions already attached to any permit for such vehicle, and every order reducing or otherwise fixing the number of transport vehicles to be used on any route or changing the route relating to the permit, and every order refusing to renew any permit previously granted, made on or before the appointed date on account of the State Road Transport Service running and operating or commencing to rub and operate on the route to which the permit related, shall be and is' hereby made and declared to be valid in law, any provision in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939) or any other law notwithstanding, and\n(b) The routes as specified in the Schedule or any other route on which the State Road Transport Service was operating on the appointed date and every such service shall for purposes of this Act, be deemed as the case may be to be a route specified in a notification under section 3, and the service operating under a scheme duly prepared and published under and in accordance with sections 4 and 5, provided that the State Government publishes in the official Gazette within thirty days of the commencement of this Act a scheme as to the aforesaid road transport service providing as far as may be, for all or any of the matters specified in sub-section (2) of section 4 and the scheme so published shall be and be deemed to be the scheme duly confirmed and published under subsection (3) of section 5 and the route to which it relates shall be called a notified route and the provisions of sections 6 and 7 shall be applicable thereto.",
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"content": "(a) the form of the declaration under section 3;\n(b) the form in which the scheme shall be published under section, 4 and 5;\n(c) the authorities, officers and staff to be constituted or appointed for purposes of this Act and their constitution, powers and duties ;\n(d) the conditions of service and qualifications of the officers and the staff appointed for purposes of this Act ;\n(e) the delegation of powers conferred upon any officer or authority by or under this Act;\n(f) the duties of any officer or authority having jurisdiction under this Act, the procedure to be followed by such officer or authority;\n(g) imposing time limits within which things to be done under this Act must be done with or without powers to any authority therein specified to extend limits imposed;\n(h) the procedure to be followed in application and other proceedings under this Act in cases for which no specified provisions have been made ;\n(i) the fees, if any, to be paid in respect of any application or proceedings under this Act ; and\n(j) the matters which are to be and may be prescribed.\nSchedule\n[Section 13 (A)]",
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"Act ID": "Last Updated 6th June, 2020 [ass384]",
"Act Number": "(Assam Act No. 30 of 1954)",
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"Act Year": "1954",
"Short Title": "Assam State Road Transport Act, 1954",
"Type": "STATE",
"Location": "Assam"
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"updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
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