Goa Motor Vehicles (Requisitioning and Control) Act, 1988

No: 6 Dated: May, 12 1988

Goa Motor Vehicles (Requisitioning and Control) Act, 1988

An act to provide for the requisitioning and control of motor vehicles in certain emergent circumstances.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Goa Motor Vehicles (Requisitioning and Control) Act, 1988. 

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Goa.

(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 

2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) “motor vehicle” has the same meaning as assigned to that expression under clause (18) of section 2 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (Central Act IV of 1939);

(b) “owner” includes, where the person in possession of a motor vehicle is a minor, the guardian of such minor, and in relation to a motor vehicle which is the subject of a hire purchase agreement or, as the case may be, of hypothecation, the person in possession of the vehicle under such agreement or hypothecation;

(c) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act.