(1) If a certificate of temporary registration is lost, destroyed, torn, defaced or mutilated, the owner of the motor vehicle or the dealer, as the case may be, shall forthwith report the matter to the original Registering Authority and shall, apply for the issue of a duplicate, certificate in Form G.D. along with a fee prescribed under Rule 44 and an affidavit swearing the above facts.
(2) If a certificate of fitness is lost, destroyed, torn, defaced or mutilated, the owner of the motor vehicle shall forthwith report the matter to the Registering Authority in whose jurisdiction the certificate was issued or last renewed and shall, apply for the issue of a duplicate certificate in Form C.D. alongwith a fee prescribed under Rule 44.
(3) Upon receipt of such intimation the registering authority shall furnish the applicant with a duplicate copy of such certificate, duly stamped 'duplicate' in red ink, and the seal of the Registering Authority.
(4) If at any time it appears to an Inspector of Motor .Vehicles or to a Registering Authority that any of the certificate issued under Chapter-IV of the Act is so torn, defaced or mutilated in any way as to cease to be reasonably legible, such Motor Vehicles Inspector or the authority may, by order in writing, impound the certificate and require the owner or the dealer, as the case may be, to obtain a duplicate certificate.