Certificate of Registration of Motor Vehicles shall be renewable after 15 years : Gadkari

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New Delhi : The Parliament has recently passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019. Section 17 of the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019, provides for amendment in sub-section 7 of Section 41 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1989 which reads as -“A certificate of registration issued under sub-section (3), whether before or after the commencement of this Act, in respect of a motor vehicle shall, subject to the provisions contained in this Act, be valid only for a period of fifteen years from the date of issue of such certificate or for such period as may be prescribed by the Central Government and shall be renewable.”

This Road Transport and Highways Ministry has made operational around 60 provisions of the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019, with effect from September 1, 2019, in whole of India .

Further, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) vide its order dated April 7, 2015, has directed that Petrol vehicles which are more than 15 years old and diesel vehicles that are more than 10 years old shall not be registered in the NCR, Delhi. This information was given by Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on March 16, 2020, according to a PIB release.