The Bihar Cycle-Rickshaw (Regulation of Licence) Act, 1979

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    "title": "The Bihar Cycle-Rickshaw (Regulation of Licence) Act, 1979",
    "short_title": "The Bihar Cycle-Rickshaw (Regulation of Licence) Act, 1979",
    "act_number": "(Bihar Act 6 of 1979)",
    "act_year": 1979,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bihar Cycle-Rickshaw (Regulation of Licence) Act, 1979",
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            "title": "1. Short title and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"cycle-rickshaw\" means a three-wheeled cycle-rickshaw driven by manual labour and includes all its components and accessories;\n(b) \"municipal area\" means any area covered by any municipality or corporation or notified area committee established under any law for the time being in force;\n(c) \"municipal authority\" means and includes any authority of the municipality or corporation or notified area committee established under any law for the time being in force.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Certificate of registration for cycle-rickshaws.",
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            "content": "(ii) A certificate of registration granted or renewed prior to the commencement of this Act shall stand revoked if it does not conform to the provisions of this Act.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Exemptions.",
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            "content": "(ii) A certificate of registration of a cycle-rickshaw may also be granted or renewed by a municipal authority to an institution to be plied through another person, if the institution has to ply it not for hire but to meet its own requirements of conveyance and transportation and in such a case it shall be lawful for the Municipal authorities to grant a driving licence to a person other than the owner of the cycle-rickshaw giving full particulars of the owner and the driver engaged to ply it with a photograph of the driver.\n(iii) The body of a rickshaw covered by sub-section (ii) above will be painted yellow.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Penalties.",
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            "content": "(ii) Notwithstanding anything contained to the contrary in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Act II of 1974), the offences under this Act shall be cognizable.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Forfeiture of the rickshaw.",
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            "content": "(ii) If the owner of a cycle-rickshaw cannot be traced, the court before whom the cycle-rickshaw is produced shall declare it to be forfeited to the State Government.\n(iii) The State Government may handover any cycle-rickshaw forfeited under sub-section (i) or sub-section (ii) to the municipal authority within whose area the offence was committed.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Power to make rules.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Repeal and saving.",
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        "Act ID": "bh078",
        "Act Number": "(Bihar Act 6 of 1979)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1979",
        "Short Title": "The Bihar Cycle-Rickshaw (Regulation of Licence) Act, 1979",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}