The Tripura Rickshaw Regulation Act, 2014
The Tripura Rickshaw Regulation Act, 2014
The Tripura Rickshaw Regulation Act, 2014 provides a legal framework to govern the registration, licensing, operation, and safety standards of all non-motorized and minor electric rickshaws across the state of Tripura. The law applies to rickshaw owners, drivers, dealers, and manufacturers, encompassing traditional manually drawn cycle-rickshaws, battery-operated rickshaws, and e-rickshaws. It protects ordinary citizens and commuters by mandating clear fare structures, setting maximum passenger capacities, ensuring basic road safety equipment like lights and bells, and barring underage drivers. For street operators, it provides formal recognition through registration while imposing clear duties to maintain traffic flow and follow safety rules on public roads.
- 1. Short title and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Registration and use of rickshaw
- 4. Prohibition to drive or draw a rickshaw without registration
- 5. Power to cancel or suspend the registration
- 6. Age limit in connection with driving of rickshaw
- 7. Use of rickshaw on road
- 8. Use of light
- 9. Use of signalling device
- 10. Leaving rickshaw in dangerous position
- 11. Licence Fee
- 12. Rates of fares
- 13. Duty to produce licence, certificate of registration etc.
- 14. Duty to Obey Traffic Signs
- 15. Power to restrict the use of vehicles
- 16. Limit of maximum numbers of passengers
- 17. Rate for letting out on hiring
- 18. Offences
- 19. Penalty for subsequent offence
- 20. Offence by whom triable
- 21. Composition of offences
- 22. Penalty for causing obstruction to free flow of traffic
- 23. Power to arrest without warrant
- 24. Power to impound document
- 25. General power to make rules
- 26. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 27. Repeal and saving
- 28. Power to remove difficulties
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