Lawgist6Restrictions on the holding of driving licences
(1) No person shall, while he holds any driving licence for the time being in force, hold any other driving licence except a learner’s licence or a driving licence issued in accordance with the provisions of section 18 or a document authorising, in accordance with the rules made under section 139, the person specified therein to drive a motor vehicle.
(2) No holder of a driving licence or a learner’s licence shall permit it to be used by any other person.
(3) Nothing in this section shall prevent a licensing authority having the jurisdiction referred to in sub-section (1) of section 9 from adding to the classes of vehicles which the driving licence authorises the holder to drive.
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- 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
