Offences Related to Driving and Motor Vehicles

Offences, Penalties, and procedures for different categories of violations related to of motor vehicles and their applications are described in Chapter XIII of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act, 2019.

The offences related to motor vehicles can be classified into two categories. First, for which the competent enforcement agency can collect the penalty from the violator prescribed for that offence in the Act. These are termed as Compoundable Offences. The second category describes Non-Compoundable Offences for which the challan is sent to the court for deciding the punishment against the violator.

There is another way of categorization of sections related to offences and penalties given in Motor Vehicles Amendment Act, 2019 which is based on the powers given to the States. For certain sections, power has been given to the state to determine the compounding fee.