Motor Vehicles Act Section 16 — Revocation of driving licence on grounds of disease or disability

CHAPTER II LICENSING OF DRIVERS OF MOTOR VEHICLES

Civil

Summary

A licensing authority can revoke a driving licence at any time, or require the licence holder to produce a medical certificate in the same form and manner as mentioned in sub-section (3) of section 8, as a condition for keeping the licence. This can happen if the authority has reasonable grounds to believe that the holder is unfit to drive a motor vehicle due to any disease or disability.

If the authority that revokes the licence is not the same authority that originally issued it, the revoking authority must inform the issuing authority about the revocation.

Official Text

Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sections, any licensing authority may at any time revoke a driving licence or may require, as a condition of continuing to hold such driving licence, the holder thereof to produce a medical certificate in the same form and in the same manner as is referred to in sub-section (3) of section 8, if the licensing authority has reasonable grounds to belive that the holder of the driving licence is, by virtue of any disease or disability, unfit to drive a motor vehicle and where the authority revoking a driving licence is not the authority which issued the same, it shall intimate the fact of revocation to the authority which issued that licence.