Motor Vehicles Act • Official Statutory Text & Practice Guide
The State Government may, if it thinks necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, direct the submission by the Inspector General of Police (by whatever designation called) and such other police officers as the State Government may specify in this behalf, of such returns containing the information regarding vehicles which have been stolen and stolen vehicles which have been recovered of which the police are aware, to the State Transport Authority, and may prescribe the form in which and the period within which such returns shall be made.
[62A. Prohibition of registration and issuance of certificate of fitness to oversized vehicles. - (1) No registering authority shall register any motor vehicle that contravenes any rule made under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 110.
(2) No prescribed authority or authorised testing station shall issue a certificate of fitness under section 56 to any motor vehicle that contravenes any rule made under section 110.] [62B. National Register of Motor Vehicles. - (1) The Central Government shall maintain a National Register of Motor Vehicles in such form and manner as may be prescribed by it: Provided that all State Registers of Motor Vehicles shall be subsumed under the National Register of Motor Vehicles by such date as may be notified in the Official Gazette by the Central Government.
(2) No certificate of registration issued, or renewed, under this Act shall be valid unless it has been issued a unique registration number under the National Register of Motor Vehicles.
(3) In order to maintain the National Register of Motor Vehicles, all State Governments and registering authorities under this Act shall transmit all information and data in the State Register of Motor Vehicles to the Central Government in such form and manner as may be prescribed by the Central Government.
(4) State Governments shall be able to access the National Register of Motor Vehicles and update records in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made by the Central Government thereunder.] [63. Maintenance of State Registers of Motor Vehicles. - Each State Government shall maintain in such form as may be prescribed by the Central Government a register to be known as the State Register of Motor Vehicles, in respect of the motor vehicles in that State, containing the particulars including -
(a) registration numbers;
(b) years of manufacture;
(c) classes and types;
(d) names and addresses of registered owners; and
(e) such other particulars as may be prescribed by the Central Government.]
Legal Commentary & Landmark Judgments: Section 62
Section 62 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 imposes a mandatory statutory duty on the police hierarchy to transmit timely data regarding stolen and recovered motor vehicles to the State Transport Authority, establishing an integrated administrative firewall against fraudulent re-registration and illicit resale of stolen vehicles.
When handling motor vehicle theft insurance claims, verify that the police station submitted the Section 62 intimation to the State Transport Authority. In consumer disputes where an insurer repudiates a theft claim on grounds of delayed FIR, produce the police Section 62 communication and NCRB database entry to establish that public authorities were promptly notified and vehicle transfer was blocked.