REGISTERED NO. D. (D.)-72 The Gazette of India EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No.20] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1983 BHADRA 4, 1905 Separate paring is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation MINISTRY OF LAW. JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 26th August, 1983/Bhadra 4, 1905 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 26th August, 1983, and is hereby published for general informat.inn: — THE DELHI MOTOR VEHICLES TAXATION (AMEND- MENT) ACT, 1983 No. 17 OF 1983 * [26th August, 1983.] An Act further to amend the Delhi Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1962. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —
1. (1) This Act may be called the Delhi Motor Vehicles Taxation (Amendment) Act, 1983.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Administrator may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint,
2. Throughout the Delhi Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1962 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for the words "Chief Commissioner", wherever they occur, the word "Administrator" shall be substihitert.
3. In section 2 of the principal Act, for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely: — '(a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of Delhi appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;'.
( 1 ) 57 of 1962 Short title and commencement. Substitution of "Chief Commissioner" by "Administrator". Amendment of section 2.
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4. Section 3 of the principal Act shall be renumbered as sub-section
(1) thereof and, after sub-section (1) as so renumbered, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely: — "(2) The Administrator may, by notification in the Official Gazette, increase from time to time, the rate specified in Schedule I in relation to any motor vehicles:
Provided that the rate as so increased shall in no case exceed the rate as MO specified by more than twenty-five per cent, (hereof.".
5. In section 23 of the principal Act, for sub-section (3), the following subsection shall be substituted, namely: — "(?) Every rule made under this section and every notification issued under sub-section (2) of section 3 shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is made or issued, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or notification, or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made or the notification should not be issued, the rule or notification shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; ao, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification.".
6. For Schedule I to the principal Act, the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely: — "SCHEDULE I (See section 3) Description of motor vehicles I
PART A.—Motor vehicles fitted solely with pncumitic tyrci— I. Motor cycles and tricycles (including motor scooters and cycles with attachment foi propelling the same by mechanised powri)—
(a) motor cycles, scooters (flar rate)
(b) gcooterettes and auto-cycles (flnt rule)
(c) tricycles (flat rate) . . . .
(d) motor vehicles specified in (a) or (b) or [c) above used for drawing ;i trailer or side car . . . . . Annual rate of lav for each motor vehicle 2 Rupees Forty. Twenty. Fifty. The rate specified in (a) or (*) or (e) above plus fifteen rupees. Amendment of section 3. Amendment of section 23. Substitution of new- Schedule for Schedule I. S E C . 1 1 T H E G A Z E T T E O F I N D I A E X T H A O R D I N A R Y •? Description of motor vehicles I
11. Motor vehicles (adapted and used for invalids) the registered unladen weight of which does not exceed three hundred kilogTams . . . . . . I l l , Motor vehicles (including tricycles) used for the transport of haulage of ffoodi or nvUeriaU, the registered In den wHphl of which—
(a) does not exceed one tonnr
(h) exceeds one tonne but- dors nol exceed two tonnes . . . . .
(c) exceeds Iwo tonnes but dors not exceed four tonnes . . . . .
(d) exceeds four tonnes but does not exceed six tonnes . . . . . («) exceeds six tonnes but does not exceed eight tonnes . . . . . (/) exceed" fight tonnes but docs not exceed nine tonnes . . . . (,<) exceed" nine tonnes but does not exceed ten tonnes . . . . (A) exceeds ten tonnes IV. Additional tax p^yable in respect of vehicle* referred to in Item I I I , used for drawing tr.tilers—
(a) for each tmiler the registerrd Indtn weight of which does not exceed two tonnes . . . . .
(fc) for each trailer the registered laden weight of which exceeds two tonnes:
Provided th;vl two or mort: vehicles shall not be chargeable uiidnr this Item in lespect of the sume trailer. * V. M )tor vehicles (including tricycles) plying for hire and used for ihe transport of passengers, when—
(a) licensed to carry, in all, not more than iwo passengers (excluding driver)
(i) licensed to carry, in all, more than two but not more than four passengers (excluding driver .ind conductor) Annwl rate of tax for each motor vehicle a Rupees Ten. Two hundred and twenty. Three hundred und ten. Four hundred and seventy. Six hundred and thirty. Seven hundred and eighty. Nine hundred and forty. Eleven hundred, The rate specified in (g) above plus one hundred and fifty-six rupees for every one tonne or part thereof in addition to ten tonnes. One hundred and fifty. Three hundred. One hundred. Two hundred. 4 THE GAZETTE OV INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II— Description of motor vehicles i
(c) licensed to carry, In nil, more than four passengers but not more than »ix passengers (excluding driver and conductor) ' (J) licensed to carry, in all, more than six passengers but not more than eighteen passengers (excluding driver and ronductor) . . . . . . («) licensed to carry more than eighteen passengers (excluding driver and conductor) . . . . . VT Motorvehicles owned by Airline Gnmp'nies nr Corporat ion for tarrying p vssrngers .ind staff— f<j)tlie suiting capacity of which does n° t exc«-d four (excluding driver) (A ) the seating capacity of which exceeds four but doesnotexcefd six (excluding driver) . . . . .
(c) the seating capacity of which exceeds six but dots not exceed eighteen (excluding driver) . . . .
(d) the seating capacity of which exceeds eighteen . . . . . VII. Break-down vans used for towing disabled vehicles mid tower wagons used for maintenance of overhead electric lines . VIII. Motor vehicles other than those liable to lax under the foregoing provisions of Ibis Schedule, the iegislered unladen weight of which—
(a) does imi exceed one thousand kilogi.um [h] exceeds one thousand kilograms but doi s not c\;cpod line thousand mid five hundred kilograms . r i exceeds one- thousand ?.nd five hundred hilograms but does ;iot exceed two thousand kilograms til) exceeds two ihousand kilograms Annual ratt of tax for each motor vehicle 2 Rupees Three hundred and seventy-five. Six hundred and thirty. The rate specified in (</) above plus ninety-. four rupees for every passen ger in addition to eighteen passengers which the vehicle is so licensed lo carry. Two hundred. Three hundred and seventy-five. Six hundred and thirty. The rate specified in (c) above plus ninetyfour rupees for every person in addition to eighteen persons. Three hundred and ten. Our hundred and twenty-five, One hundred and sixty. Two hundred and thirty. The rate specified in (e) above plus one hundred and fifty rupees for every one thousand kilograms or part thereof in addition to two thousand kilogr.ms.
3EC. i] tHt GA2tiTTE OF INDIA EXTRAO&DINAftY 5 DiseripHon of motor vehicles r IX. Additional tax payable in respect of vehicles referred to in Item VIII, if such vehicles are med for drawing trailers
(i) for each trailer the registered unladen weight of which doe« not exceed one tonne . . . . .
(ii) for each trailer the registered unladen weitht of which exceeds one tonne :
Provided that two or more vehicles ihall not be chargeable under thii Item in respect of the tame trailer.
PART B—Motor vehicles other than those fitted solely with pneumatic tyre* • Annual rate of tax jot each motor vehicle 3 Rupees Sixty. One hundred and twenty. The rates shown in Part A plus ftf r per cent, thereof. R. V. S. PERT SASTRI, Secy, tu the Govt. of India, N O T E : — T h e r e g i s t e r e d u n l a d e n w c i g l i i o f m o t o r v e h i c l e s h a l l b r ; i s u p c e i f i r d i n i h c c r n i f i c ; « • of rcgislrntirm". PRINTED BY THIv GENERAL MANAGER, GOVEHNMENT OF INDIA PRESS, MINTO ROAD. NEW DELHI AND fUBUSHKD HY THE CONTROLLER Or PUBLICATIONS, DELHI, 1983