The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
Where any Claims Tribunal allows a claim for compensation made under this Act, such Tribunal may direct that in addition to the amount of compensation simple interest shall also be paid at such rate and from such date not earlier than the date of making the claim as it may specify in this behalf.
Source & version
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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