The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) on March 06, 2024, issued the Central Motor Vehicles (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2024, to further amend the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.
The following amendments have been stated:
• In rule 47, which states “Application for registration of motor vehicles”, in sub-rule (1), in clause (v), in sub-clause(g), the words, figures and letter, “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” shall be omitted.
• In rule 125C, which states “Bodybuilding and approval”,
o In sub-rule (1), after the proviso and the Table, the following proviso shall be 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 and shall be a type approved by the Test Agencies specified under rule 126.”;
o In sub-rule (7), after clause (b), the following clause shall be 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.”
This notification will come into force from September 01, 2025.
[Notification No G.S.R. 159(E)]
