(1) This Act may be called the Gujarat Motor Vehicles (Requisitioning and Control) Act, 1987.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Gujarat.
(3) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the 8th December, 1986 and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "motor vehicle" has the same meaning as assigned to that expression under clause (18) of section 2 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 ;
(b) "owner" includes, where the person in possession of a motor vehicle is a minor the guardian of such minor, and in relation to a motor vehicle which is the subject of a hire purchase agreement or, as the case may be, of hypothecation, the person in possession of the vehicle under such agreement or hypothecation ;
(c) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
3. If the State Government is satisfied that a situation has arisen in which it is necessary or expedient to secure,-
(i) the public safety ;
(ii) the maintenance of public order or of the services and supplies-essential to the life of community ; or
(iii) the relief of distress caused by serious drought, flood, fire or other natural calamity, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make a declaration to that effect and such declaration shall continue to be in force till it is rescinded.