Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
60[(1) The hours of work of any person engaged for operating a transport vehicle shall be such as provided in the Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 ( 27 of 1961 )]. 60. Sub-S. (1) substituted by Act 54 of 1994, S. 29 ( w.e.f. 14-11-1994 ). Prior to its substitution, sub-S. (1) read as under . “(1) No person shall cause or allow any person who is employed by him for the purpose of driving a transport vehicle or who is subject to his control for such purpose to work - (a) for more than five hours before he has had an interval of rest of at least half an hour ; or (b) for more than eight hours in one day ; or (c) for more than forty-eight hours in any week.” emergency of delays by reason of circumstances which could not be foreseen. (3) A State Government or, if authorised in this behalf by the State Government by rules made under section 96, the State or a Regional Transport Authority may require persons employing any person whose work is subject to any of the provision of sub-section (1) to fix beforehand the hours of work of such persons so as to conform to those provisions, and may provide for the recording of the hours so fixed. (4) No person shall work or shall cause or allow any other person to work outside the hours fixed or recorded for the work of such persons under sub-section (3), (2) A State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, grant such exemptions from the provisions of sub-section (1) as it thinks fit, to meet cases of (5) A State Government may prescribe the circumstances under which and the period during which the driver of a vehicle although not engaged in work is required to remain on or near the vehicle may be deemed to be an interval for rest within the meaning of sub-section (1). Corresponding Law. - Section 91 corresponds to section 65 of the motor vehicles Act, 1939. Object and Reasons . - Clause 91 prohibits the driving of motor vehicles by a person for more than certain hours in a day and the hours of rest the driver should take after certain hours of continuous driving.