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Section 173: Appeals.

The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988Central Act · Act 59 of 1988

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), any person aggrieved by an award of a Claims Tribunal may, within ninety days from the date of the award, prefer an appeal to the High Court:

Provided that no appeal by the person who is required to pay any amount in terms of such award shall be entertained by the High Court unless he has deposited with it twenty-five thousand rupees or fifty per cent. of the amount so awarded, whichever is less, in the manner directed by the High Court:

Provided further that the High Court may entertain the appeal after the expiry of the said period of ninety days, if it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from preferring the appeal in time.

(2) No appeal shall lie against any award of a Claims Tribunal if the amount in dispute in the appeal is less than [one lakh] rupees.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
Section173
Marginal noteAppeals.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it25

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act 32 of 2019. . Subs. by Act 32 of 2019, s. 56, for "ten thousand" (w.e.f. 1-4-2022).

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