Published by Authority
No. 23] CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2023 (JYAISTHA 19, 1945 SAKA)
PART I
Punjab Government Notifications and Orders
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT
(Transport II Branch)
NOTIFICATION
The 17th May, 2022
No. 10/166/2009-1T2/375.- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 200 of the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 [ The Motor Vehicles(Amendment) Act 2019 No. 32 of 2019 dated 09- 08-2019] and all other powers enabling him in this behalf the Governor of Punjab is pleased to supersede notification no. 10/166/2009-1T2/ 1416 dated 11.11.2021.It is specified that the authorities mentioned under column 5 of the Schedule given below, to compound the offences mentioned under column 3 there of either before or after the institution of the prosecution for the amount mentioned under column 4 of said schedule.
SCHEDULE
Sr. Section of offence Amount of Authority competent No. the Act
compounding to compound the under which
fee for first offence offence the offence
and subsequent
committee
offence.
1 2 3
4 5
1 177 & 190 (2) In case the Public service within 45 days after
vehicle owner does not get due date Rs 2,000
the AIS 140 VLT device beyond 46 days up to
installed after due date 90 days after due date
i.e. 01.08.2022 Rs 3,000/- beyond
90 days after due date
Rs 500/- per day 524 PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ., JUNE 9, 2023 (JYST 19, 1945 SAKA) PART I] 2 177 If In case of Public service vehicle within 45 days after 1. STC, Punjab registered on or after 01.01.2019. due date Rs 20,000/- 2. Additional/ The Public service vehicle beyond 46 days Joint STC, Punjab manufacturer or its authorized up to 90 days 3. Deputy agency does not register and after due date STC Punjab, activate VLT device with Rs 30,000/- 4. Secretary, RTA's emergency button after due date beyond 90 days 5. Assistant i.e. 01.08.2022. after due date Transport Officer
Rs 5000/- per day 6. Sub-divisional
Magistrate
3 177 AIS 140 VLT device with i) Up to 6 Hrs Rs.2000/-
emergency button installed in
specified Public Service Vehicles (ii) Beyond 6 Hrs
as per Rule 125 H of Central Rs. 2000 and in addition
Motor Vehicles Rules 1989. is not Rs 200 per hour
working/functional or not sending beyond 6 hours
required data to the corresponding
Monitoring Center/State /NIC
Command Control Centre/
continuously (1st offence)
2nd offence repeated within i) Up to 6 Hrs Rs.4000/-
30 days of 1st offence (ii) Beyond 6 Hrs
Rs. 4000 and in addition
Rs 200 per hour beyond
6 hours
3rd offence repeated within Suspension of in Permit in
30 days of 2nd offence. addition to Penalty of
2nd offence.
2. The non operational status of the VLT device shall be determined based on the data/feed not received in real time on State/NIC backend /common layer application/Command Control Centre.
3. In case the VLTD fails to send required data to the monitoring centre due to technical failure/fault/ physical damage etc. The Public service vehicle owner shall deposit the dysfunctional VLT device to its manufacturer or authorized dealer within 3 days and shall submit the receipt obtained from service centre to the concerned Secretary, Regional Transport Authority. It will be the responsibility of the concerned VLTD manufacturer/ authorized dealer to immediately re-fix the device on the vehicle after service.
4. The notification will be effective from 1st August, 2022.