Chapter VIII — Control Of Traffic
Section 120 — Vehicles with left hand control
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988)
Text of the section
Vehicles with left hand control.—No person shall drive or cause or allow to be driven in any public place any motor vehicle with a left-hand steering control unless it is equipped with a mechanical or electrical signalling device of a prescribed nature and in working order.
Reproduced from the India Code text of the Act. Bracketed superscript numerals are the official footnote markers for earlier amendments.
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