Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - CHAPTER XIII OFFENESES, PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE - section 177, section 178 and section 179

CHAPTER XIII
OFFENESES, PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

177. General provisions for punishment of offences,-  Whoever contravenes any provisions of this Act or any rule, regulation or  notification made thereunder shall, if no penalty is provided for that offence be punishable for the first offence for a fine which may extent to one hundred rupees, and for any second or subsequent offences with fine which may extent to three hundred rupees.

178. Penalty for travelling without pass or ticket and for dereliction of duty on the part of conductor and refusal and refusal to ply contract carriage,-  (1) Whoever travels in a state carriage without having a proper pass or ticket with him or being in or having alighted from a stage carriage fails or refuses to present for examination or to deliver up his pass or ticket immediately on a requisition made thereof,  shall be punishable with fine which may extent to five hundred rupees.
Explantion:- In this section “pass” and “ticket” have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section124.

  (2) If the conductor of a stage carriage, or the driver of a stage carriage  performing the functions of conductor in  such stage carriage whose duty is –

           (a) to supply a ticket for a person travelling in a stage carriage on payment of fare by such person, either willfully or negligently,-

                        (i) fails or refuses to accept the fare when tendered, or

                        (ii) fails or refuses to give a ticket, or 

                        (iii) supply an invalid ticket,  or

                        iv) supply a ticket of a lesser value, or

         (b) to check any pass or ticket either willfully or negligently  fails or refuses to do so,
he shall be punishable with fine which may extent to five hundred rupees.  

  (3) If the holder of a permit or the driver of a contract carriage refused, in contravention of the provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder,  to ply the contact carriage or to carry the passengers, he shall

       (a) In the case of two wheeled or three wheeled motor vehicles he may be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, and

       (b) in any other case, be punishable with a fine which may extent to two hundred rupees.

179. Disobedience of orders, obstruction and refusal of information-  Whoever willfully disobeys any direction lawfully given by  any person or authority empowered under this Act to give such direction, or obstruct any persons or authority in the discharge of any functions which such person or authority ir required or empowered under this Act to discharge, shall, if no other penalty is provided for the offence be punishable with fine which may extent to five hundred rupees.

  (2)  Whoever, being required by or under this Act to supply any information, willfully withholds such information or gives information which he knows to be false or which he does not believe to be true shall, if no other penalty is provided for the offense be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extent to one month, or with fine  which may extent to five hundred rupees or with both.

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