Lawgist4Age limit in connection with driving of motor vehicles
(1) No person under the age of eighteen years shall drive a motor vehicle in any public place:
Provided that 1[a motor cycle with engine capacity not exceeding 50cc] may be driven in a public place by a person after attaining the age of sixteen years.
(2) Subject to the provisions of section 18, no person under the age of twenty years shall drive a transport vehicle in any public place.
(3) No learners licence or driving licence shall be issued to any person to drive a vehicle of the class to which he has made an application unless he is eligible to drive that class of vehicle under this section.
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1. Subs. by Act 54 of 1994, s. 4, for "a motor cycle without gear" (w.e.f. 14-11-1994).
- 3 Necessity for driving licence
- 4 Age limit in connection with driving of motor vehicles
- 5 Responsibility of owners of motor vehicles for contravention of sections 3 and 4
- 6 Restrictions on the holding of driving licences
- 7 Restrictions on the granting of learner's licences for certain vehicles
- 8 Grant of learner's licence
- 9 Grant of driving licence
- 10 Form and contents of licences to drive
- 11 Additions to driving licence
- 12 Licensing and regulation of schools or establishments for imparting instruction in driving of motor vehicles
- 13 Extent of effectiveness of licences, to drive motor vehicles
- 14 Currency of licences to drive motor vehicles
- 15 Renewal of driving licences
- 16 Revocation of driving licence on grounds of disease or disability
- 17 Orders refusing or revoking driving licences and appeals therefrom
- 18 Driving Licences to drive motor vehicles, belonging to the Central Government
- 19 Power of licensing authority to disqualify from holding a driving licence or revoke such licence
- 20 Power of Court to disqualify
- 21 Suspension of driving licence in certain cases
- 22 Suspension or cancellation of driving licence on conviction
- 23 Effect of disqualification order
- 24 Endorsement
- 25 Transfer of endorsement and issue of driving licence free from endorsement
- 26 Maintenance of State Registers of Driving Licences
- 27 Power of Central Government to make rules
- 28 Power of State Government to make rules
