**Executive Summary:**
This notification publishes draft amendments to the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, concerning emission standards for gasoline-driven vehicles. The Central Government is considering these amendments and invites objections or suggestions within 30 days of the gazette's publication. The proposed rules, titled the Central Motor Vehicles Amendment Rules, 2014, include Bharat Stage III emission norms.
**Key Points / Main Content:**
* **General:**
* The document contains draft rules to amend the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.
* The draft rules are called the Central Motor Vehicles Amendment Rules, 2014.
* The rules will come into force on the date of their final publication in the official Gazette.
* The Central Government will consider objections or suggestions received within 30 days of the gazette's publication.
* Objections and suggestions should be sent to the Joint Secretary Transport, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Transport Bhawan, Parliament Street, New Delhi 110001.
* **Amendment to Emission Standards:**
* Subrule 8 of rule 115A of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 is amended.
* Every gasoline driven power tiller manufactured on and from 1st July, 2013 and every gasoline multiutility industrial power sweeper and every gasoline agricultural tractor manufactured on and from 1st April, 2014 shall comply with the Bharat Stage III norms.
* Vehicles shall comply with the weighted average mass emission standards, when tested for Type approval TA and Conformity of Production COP in accordance with the eight mode test cycle as specified in the Table 1.
* The limits as specified in the Table 2 below shall not be exceeded.
**Impact Analysis:**
* **Vehicle Manufacturers (Power Tillers, Multiutility Industrial Power Sweepers, Agricultural Tractors):**
* Impact: Compliance with Bharat Stage III emission norms and specific testing standards for gasoline-driven vehicles manufactured after specified dates.
* Action Required: Ensure vehicles manufactured after July 1, 2013 (power tillers) and April 1, 2014 (sweepers and tractors) meet the Bharat Stage III norms and pass the specified tests.
* **General Public:**
* Impact: Potential impact on vehicle costs and availability due to new emission standards.
* Action Required: Review the draft rules and submit any objections or suggestions to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways within 30 days of the gazette's publication.
* **Ministry of Road Transport and Highways:**
* Impact: Responsibility for reviewing and considering objections and suggestions from the public.
* Action Required: Review and consider objections/suggestions, finalize and publish the amended rules in the official Gazette.
Key Entities Referenced
Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989: A set of rules pertaining to motor vehicles, which is being amended by this notification.
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: The principal Act that confers powers to the Central Government to make rules regarding motor vehicles.
Central Motor Vehicles Amendment Rules, 2014: The rules being introduced to amend the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways: The government ministry responsible for road transport and highways, which is issuing the notification.
Transport Bhawan, Parliament Street, New Delhi 110001: The address to which objections and suggestions regarding the draft rules can be sent.
Bharat Stage III: Emission standards that gasoline driven vehicles must comply with.
Sanjay Bandopadhyaya: The Joint Secretary who signed the notification.
Type Approval TA: The standard for type approval of vehicles
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MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 24th April, 2014
G.S.R. 290(E).—The following draft of certain rules further to amend the Central Motor Vehicles Rules,
1989, which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by section 110 of the
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), is hereby published as required by sub-section (1) of Section 212 of the said
Act for information of all persons likely to be affected thereby, and notice is hereby given that the said draft rules shall
be taken into consideration after the expiry of thirty days from the date on which copies of the gazette of India,
containing the notification, are made available to the public.
2. Any objections or suggestions which may be received from any person with respect to the said draft rules before
the expiry of the aforesaid period will be considered by the Central Government.
3. Objections and suggestions to these draft rules, if any, may be sent to the Joint Secretary (Transport), Ministry of
Road Transport and Highways, Transport Bhawan, Parliament Street, New Delhi – 110001.
DRAFT RULES
1. (1) These rules may be called the Central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Rules, 2014.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the official Gazette.
2. In the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, in sub-rule (8) of rule 115A, in the opening portion beginning with
the words “every gasoline” and ending with the words and figure “following table 2:-” the following shall be
substituted, namely:-
“Every gasoline driven power tiller manufactured on and from 1st July, 2013 and every gasoline multi-utility
industrial power sweeper and every gasoline agricultural tractor manufactured on and from 1st April, 2014
shall comply with the Bharat Stage III norms and the weighted average mass emission standards, when tested
for Type approval (TA) and Conformity of Production (COP) in accordance with the eight mode test cycle as
specified in the following Table 1, shall not exceed the limits as specified in the Table 2 below:- ”.
[F. No. RT-11036/58/2013-MVL]
SANJAY BANDOPADHYAYA, Jt. Secy.
Note:—The principal rules were notified in the Gazette of India vide G.S.R. 590(E), dated the 2nd June, 1989 and last
amended vide G.S.R. 152(E) dated the 5th March, 2014.
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