The Central Motor Vehicles Rules,1989
Section 122. Embossment of the chassis number and engine number or in the case of battery operated vehicles, motor number and month of manufacture
Chassis number and engine number
1[ 2Embossment of the chassis number and engine number or in the case of battery operated vehicles, motor number and month of manufacture. ](1) On and from the date of commencement of the Central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Rules,1993, 3[every motor vehicle including agricultural tractor and construction equipment vehicle other than trailer and semi-trailer] shall bear the identification number including month
and year of manufacture, embossed or etched or punched on it:
Provided that in such vehicles where space is insufficient for etching, embossing or punching the 4[engine number/motor number, chassis number and month of manufacture], the etching, embossing or punching of year and month of manufacture shall be on an identification plate welded or rivetted to the body of the vehicle.
5[(1-A) On and from the date of commencement of the Central Motor Vehicles (Sixth Amendment) Rules,2000, every construction equipment vehicle shall bear the identification number including month and year of manufacture, embossed or etched or punched on it:
Provided that in a construction equipment vehicles where the space is insufficient for etching, embossing or punching the engine number, the chassis number and month of manufacture, the etching, embossing or punching of year and month of manufacture shall be on an identification plate welded or rivetted to the body of the vehicle.]
6[(2) The vehicle manufacturer shall intimate to the certifying testing agency regarding the place where the numbers shall be embossed or etched or punched including code for the year and month of production in respect of each model and such testing agency shall include these details in the certificate of compliance granted by that agency under rule 126. No manufacturer shall change the place of embossing, etching or punching and the code for the month and year of production without prior intimation by registered post to the testing agency which granted the certificate of compliance to these rules: Provided that in no case the height of the chassis number embossed, etched or punched shall be less than five millimetres for vehicles having overall length less than six metres and less than seven millimetres for the vehicle having overall length more than six metres.]
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1. R. 122 substituted by G.S.R. 338(E), da ted 26-3-1993 (w.e.f. 26-3-1993).
2. Substituted by G.S.R. 589(E), dated 16-9-2005, for the heading (w.e.f. 1-4-2006).
3. Substituted by G.S.R. 111(E), dated 10-2-2004, for “every motor vehicle other than trailers and semi-trailers” (w.e.f. 10-8-2004).
4. Substituted by G.S.R. 589(E), dated 16-9-2005, for “engine number, chassis number and month of manufacture all together” (w.e.f. 1-4-2006).
5. Inserted by G.S.R. 642(E), dated 28-7-2000 (w.e.f. 28-7-2000).
6. Substituted by G.S.R. 221(E), dated 28-3-2001 (w.e.f. 28-3-2001).
