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The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988

§109General provision regarding construction and maintenance of vehicles

(1) Every motor vehicle shall be so constructed and so maintained as to be at all times under the effective control of the person driving the vehicle. (2) Every motor vehicle shall be so constructed as to have right hand steering control unless it is equipped with a mechanical or electrical signalling device of a prescribed nature. [(3) If the Central Government is of the opinion that it is neces sary or expedient so to do in the public interest, it may by order published in the Official Gazette, notify that any article or process used by a manufacturer shall conform to such standard as may be specified in that order.]

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Official text: India Code (official)

Official India Code text: The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1798/1/aA1988-59.pdf, 3,740,289 bytes, sha256 be5bac90…) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-30. The same handle also carries a Hindi edition (Hh198859.pdf) — the English 'aA'-prefixed file is the one ingested. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history and the Schedules excluded; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.

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