The Gujarat Motor Vehicles (Requisitioning and Control) Act, 1987

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    "title": "The Gujarat Motor Vehicles (Requisitioning and Control) Act, 1987",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Motor Vehicles (Requisitioning and Control) Act, 1987",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 10 of 1987",
    "act_year": 1987,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Gujarat Motor Vehicles (Requisitioning and Control) Act, 1987",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"motor vehicle\" has the same meaning as assigned to that expression under clause (18) of Section 2 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (IV of 1939);\n(b) \"owner\" includes, where the person in possession of a motor vehicle is a minor, the guardian of such minor, and in relation to a motor vehicle which is the subject of a hire purchase agreement or, as the case may be, of hypothecation, the person in possession of the vehicle under such agreement of hypothecation;\n(c) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Declaration by State Government.",
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            "content": "(i) the public safety;\n(ii) the maintenance of public order or of the services and supplies essential to the life of community; or\n(iii) the relief of distress caused by serious drought, flood, fire or other natural calamity, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make a declaration to that effect and such declaration shall continue to be in force till it is rescinded.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Requisitioning of motor vehicle.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Release from requisitioning.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Principles of compensation for requisitioning.",
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            "content": "(i) Interest on the cost at which the owner had purchased the vehicle calculated in such manner and at such rate not being less than ten per cent per annum or not more than thirteen per cent per annum as may be prescribed for all or any class of motor vehicles and different rates of interest may be prescribed having regard to the circumstances whether the vehicle was purchased on hire purchase basis or by obtaining loan from a bank or otherwise:\n(ii) An amount representing depreciation of the vehicle during the period of its requisitioning calculated at a rate not exceeding thirty per cent per annum and in a manner that may be prescribed for all or any class of motor vehicles.\n(iii) An amount for the loss of the use of the vehicle or of any profits that might have been earned but for the requisitioning, at such percentage not being less than three per cent per. annum, as may be prescribed of the cost referred to in clause (i) as reduced by depreciation calculated at the same rate as for clause (ii) in such manner and for such period as may be so prescribed.\n(iv) Any further amount that the State Government may, by general or special order, specify:",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Payment of compensation.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to require information, etc.",
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            "content": "(a) require any person to submit to it or such authority as may be specified in the order, within such time or at such intervals, such information and documents in his possession relating to the vehicle as may be specified therein, being information and documents reasonably necessary for carrying into effect the provisions aforesaid;\n(b) direct that the owner or person in charge of the vehicle shall not, without the permission of the State Government, dispose of it, or remove it from the premises in which it is kept, or remove any tyres, tubes, accessories or parts from the vehicle, till the expiry of such period as may be so specified.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Penalty for contravention of any order regarding requisitioning.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Control of motor vehicles.",
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            "content": "(a) regulate, restrict or give directions with respect to the use of any motor vehicle for the purpose of road transport or the sale or purchase of any such vehicle;\n(b) require any person owning, or having in his possession or under his control any motor vehicle (hereinafter in this section referred to as \"the said person\") to make to any person specified in this behalf a return giving such particulars as may be specified in the order with regard to such vehicle and require such return to be verified in such manner as may be specified therein;\n(c) require the said person to give notice in such manner as may be specified in the order before disposing of the motor vehicle or allowing it to pass out of his possession or control;\n(d) require the said person, or any person employed in connection with any motor vehicle, to comply with any directions given by any person specified in, or duly authorised in pursuance of, the order and such directions may require the said person or such employed persons to use the vehicle for the conveyance of such persons or goods at such time and by such routes as may be set forth in the directions;\n(e) prescribe the conditions subject to which and the rates at which any motor vehicle may be hired for the purpose of road transport and persons or goods may be carried by road, and the conditions subject to which goods so carried or to be carried may be discharged or loaded;\n(f) provide for the giving of directions with respect to the carriage of persons or goods on any particular motor vehicle or by any particular route, or to any clearing house or depot :\n(g) provide for the regulation of the priority in which persons and goods are to be carried by road and vehicles are to be used for the purpose of road transport;\n(h) make such other provisions in relation to road transport as appear to the State Government to be necessary or expedient.\n(a) enter and search any such building, land or premises, as the case may be, and seize any motor vehicle found which he suspects to be therein or thereon in contravention of the order;\n(b) stop such person and seize any motor vehicle which is being used in contravention or the order.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Service of orders and notices.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Delegation of powers and duties of State Government.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Protection of action taken under Act.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Repeal and savings.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj123",
        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 10 of 1987",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1987",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Motor Vehicles (Requisitioning and Control) Act, 1987",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:48"
}