CHAPTER –I Preliminary

1. Short title, application and commencement:- (1) These rules may be called the Telangana Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989. » They extend to the whole of the State of Telangana . » They shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. Definitions:- (1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,- » ‘Act' means the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Central Act 59 of 1988) ; » ‘Express State Carriage' means:- » a carriage plying on city and town routes ‘non-stop' or ‘with limited halts' as may be prescribed by the transport authority; or » a carriage plying non-stop on muffasil routes of short distances as may be prescribed by the transport authority; or » a carriage plying on muffasil routes with limited halts, as may be prescribed by the transport authority. » ‘Claims Tribunal; means a Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal constituted under Section 165 of the Act; » ‘Form' means a Form prescribed under the Act or Central Rules or appended to these rules; » ‘Government' means the Government of Telangana; » ‘Inspector of Motor Vehicles' means an officer appointed by the Government to perform the functions and discharge the duties of an Inspector of Motor Vehicles and includes an Assistant Inspector of Motor Vehicles; » ‘Legal Representative' shall have the meaning assigned to it under Clause (11) of Section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Central Act 5 of 1908); » ‘Magistrate' means a salaried Magistrate; » ‘Passenger' means any person traveling in a public service vehicle other than the driver or the conductor or any employee of the permit holder while on duty; » ‘Regional Transport Authority' means the Regional Transport Authority constituted for the region concerned under sub-section (1) of Section 68; » ‘Road length' means the actual distance of any road as a physical track; » ‘Section' means the section of the Act; » ‘State' means the State of Telangana ; » ‘State Transport Authority' means the State Transport Authority constituted for the State of Telangana under sub-section (I) of Section 68; » ‘taxi meter' means any approved mechanical device attached to a motor vehicle for the calculation and legible exhibition of fares and other charges due from passengers therein; (i) ‘trip' or ‘single trip' means a journey from one terminus to the other of a route; (ii) ‘double trip', ‘round trip' or ‘return trip' means one to and from journey from terminus of a route; (iii) ‘shuttle trip' or ‘cut trip' means a single journey on a portion of route; (iv) ‘shuttle double trip' or ‘shuttle round trip' or ‘shuttle return trip' means one to and fro journey on a part of a route; (v) ‘trip distance' means:- » in relation to the service performed by a vehicle on a route the total distance in all its trips, including shuttle trips if any, performed by the vehicle in a day; » in relation to several vehicles on a route, the total distance performed in a day by all the vehicles in all their trips including shuttle trips, in any, on a route; » in relation to vehicles on different routes, the total distance performed in a day by all the vehicles on all routes in all the trips including shuttle trips, if any; » ‘trunk road' means a road notified as such in the Telangana Gazette. (la) “Sleeper Bus” means a stage carriage constructed or adapted to carry more thank six passengers (excluding driver) with facility of comfortable sleep on a berth, for hire or reward at a separate fare paid by or for individual passenger either for whole journey or the stages of the journey. (Ib) “Sleeper Coach” means a contract carriages constructed or adapted to carry more than six passengers (excluding driver) with facility of comfortable sleep on berth for hire or reward and is engaged under a contract whether expressed or implied for the use of such vehicle as a whole for the carriage of passengers mentioned therein and entered into by an owner/organization whose fleet exceeds 2000, and with a holder of a permit in relation to such vehicle or any person authorized by him/them in this behalf on a fixed or an agreed rate of sum, (i) on a time basis whether or not with reference to any route or distance, or (ii) from one point to another and in either case without stopping to pick-up or get down passengers not included in the contract any where during the journey. » The General Clauses Act, 1897 (Central Act 10 of 1987) shall apply to the interpretation of these rules as it applies to the interpretation of the Act. Any appeal or revision under the Act may be admitted after the prescribed period if the appellant or revision petitioner satisfies the Appellate or Revisional Authority that he had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal or making the revision within such period.