class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRT&H) on October 06, 2023, issued the Draft Central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Rules, 2023 further to amend the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.
The following amendments have been stated:
• In rule 47, which states “Application for registration of motor vehicles” sub-rule 1, clause g, the following words, figures, and letters have been omitted, namely:
“And, in case of self-certification of the bus body built on a drive away chassis by a bus body structure fabricator, certificate of compliance in Form 22B”
• Form 22B shall be omitted.
• In rule 47, which states “Application for registration of motor vehicles” sub-rule 5 with words and figures “on and from …. On the portal” has been renumbered as sub-rule 6.
• In rule 47, which states “Application for registration of motor vehicles” the sub-rule 6, the following proviso has been inserted, namely:
“Provided that, every bus body builder shall upload the bus body details against the relevant drive away chassis on the portal https://www.vahan.nic.in/makermodel.”
• In rule 125-C, which states “Bodybuilding and approval” in sub-rule 1, after the first proviso, the following new proviso has been inserted namely:
“Provided further that, the testing and approval of bodybuilding of buses with a seating capacity of 13 or more passengers excluding driver, by bus body builder shall be in accordance with AIS:052 (Revision 1)-2008, as amended from time to time, for vehicles mentioned therein, till the corresponding BIS specifications are notified under the Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) Act,2016 (11 of 2016), and shall be type approved by the Test Agencies specified under Rule 126 of CMVR 1989.”
• In rule 125-C, which states “Bodybuilding and approval” in sub-rule 7, Table 1, following new clause c inserted namely:
“(c) the buses with seating capacity exceeding 22 passengers excluding driver, built by bus body builder shall meet the requirements as per AIS-153, as amended from time to time, for vehicles mentioned therein, till the corresponding BIS specifications are notified under the Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) Act, 2016 (11 of 2016).
• In rule 126, which states “Prototype of every motor vehicle to be subject to test”:
“10th and 11th provisions under CMV Rule 126 shall be omitted.”
This notification shall come into force on and after eighteen months from October 06, 2023.
[Notification No G.S.R. 724(E)]
