2. Definitions.– In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say–
(1) “ambulance” means a vehicle designed for the carriage of sick, wounded or invalid persons or animals;
(2) “axle weight” means in relation to an axle of a vehicle the total weight transmitted by the several wheels attached to that axle to the surface whereon the vehicle rests;
(3) [“Board”] means the [Punjab Road Transport Board] established under section 70;
(4) “certificate of registration” means the certificate issued by a competent authority to the effect that a motor vehicle has been duly registered in accordance with provisions of Chapter III;
(5) “contract carriage” means a motor vehicle which carries a passenger or passengers for hire or reward under a contract expressed or implied for the use of the vehicle as a whole at or for a fixed or agreed rate or sum and from one point to another without stopping to pick up or set down along the line of route passengers not included in the contract; and includes a motor cab notwithstanding that the passengers may pay separate fares;
(6) “delivery van” means any goods vehicle the registered laden weight of which does not exceed 5,000 pounds avoirdupois;
(7) “driver” includes, where a separate person acts as steersman of a motor vehicle, that person as well as any other person engaged in the driving of the vehicle;
(8) “emergency vehicle” means a motor vehicle used solely for police, fire-bridge or ambulance purposes or to relieve distress;
(9) “fares” includes sums payable for a season ticket or in respect of the hire of a contract carriage;
(10) “goods” include live-stock, and anything (other than equipment ordinarily used with the vehicle) carried by a vehicle except living persons, but does not include luggage or personal effects carried in a motor car or in a trailer attached to a motor car or the personal luggage of passengers travelling in the vehicle;
(11) “goods vehicle” means any motor vehicle constructed or adapted for use for the carriage of goods, or any motor vehicle not so constructed or adapted when used for the carriage of goods, solely or in addition to passengers;
(12) “Government” means the [Provincial Government];
(13) “heavy transport vehicle” means a transport vehicle the registered axle weight of which exceeds 10,600 pounds avoirdupois, or the registered laden weight of which exceed 14,500 pounds avoirdupois;
(14) “intersection “ shall include the area bounded by the side lines, real or projected, of two or more public highways which meet or cross each other;
(15) “invalid carriage” means a motor vehicle the unladen weight of which does not exceed five hundred weights, specially designed and constructed, and not merely adapted, for the use of a person suffering from some physical defect or disability, and used solely by or for such a person;
(16) “licence” means the document issued by competent authority authorising the person specified therein to drive a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle of any specified class or description;
(17) “licensing authority” means an authority empowered to grant licences under this Ordinance;
(18) “light transport vehicle” means any public service vehicle other than a motor cab, or any goods vehicle other than a heavy transport vehicle or a delivery van;
(19) “locomotive” means a motor vehicle which is itself not constructed to carry any load (other than equipment used for the purpose of propulsion), the unladen weight of which exceeds 16,000 pounds avoirdupois, but does not include a road-roller;
(20) “motor cab” means any motor vehicle constructed, adapted or used to carry not more than ten passengers excluding the driver, for hire or reward;
(21) “motor car” means any motor vehicle other than a transport vehicle, locomotive, road-roller, tractor, motor cycle or invalid carriage;
(22) “motor cycle” means a motor vehicle, other than an invalid carriage, with less than four wheels, the unladen weight of which, inclusive of any sidecar attached to the vehicle, does not exceed 900 pounds avoirdupois;
(23) “motor vehicle” means any mechanically propelled vehicle adapted for use upon roads whether the powers of propulsion is transmitted thereto from an external or internal source, and includes a chassis to which a body has not been attached, [a tractor] and a trailer, [a combined harvester, a rig, a fork lifter, a road roller, construction and earth moving machinery such as a wheel loader, a crane, an excavator, a grader, a dozer and a pipe layer, a road making and a road/sewerage cleaning plant,] but does not include a vehicle running, upon fixed rails or used solely upon the premises of the owner;
(24) “owner” means the person in whose name the motor vehicle is registered and includes–
(a) a transferee of the motor vehicle from such persons;
(b) in relation to motor vehicle which is the subject of a hire-purchase agreement, the person in possession of the vehicle under that agreement; and
(c) where the person in whose name the motor vehicle is registered or the person in possession of the motor vehicle under a hire-purchase agreement is–
(i) a minor, the guardian of such minor;
(ii) a company registered under the Companies Act, 1913, the directors of such company;
(iii) a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, or under any law relating to co-operative societies, the principal officer of such society by whatever designation known;
(iv) a firm, all the partners of such a firm; and
(v) any other association of persons, all the members of such association:
Provided that where such company, firm, society or other association of persons has given notice to the registering authority that has nominated a director, partner, office-bearer, member or officer, as the case may be, of the company, firm, society or association to be the owner of the vehicle for the purposes of this Ordinance, the person so nominated shall alone be deemed to be the owner for the purpose of this Ordinance;
(25) “permit” means the document issued by the Provincial Transport Authority or a Regional Transport Authority, authorising the use of a transport vehicle as a contract carriage or stage carriage, or authorising the owner as a private carrier or public carrier to use such vehicle;
(26) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance;
(27) “private carrier” means an owner of a transport vehicle other than a public carrier who uses that vehicle solely for the carriage of goods which are his property or the carriage of which is necessary for the purposes of his business, not being a business of providing transport, or who uses the vehicle for any of the purposes specified in sub-section (2) of section 44;
[(27-A) “Province” means the Province of the
(28) “public carrier” means an owner of a transport vehicle who transports or undertakes to transport goods, or any class of goods, for another person at any time and in any public place, for hire or reward, whether in pursuance of the terms of a contract or agreement or otherwise and includes any person, body, association or company engaged in the business of carrying the goods of persons associated with that person, body, association or company for the purposes of having their goods transported;
(29) “public highway” shall include any highway, road, street, avenue, alley, public place, public driveway or any other public way;
(30) “public place” means, a road, street way of other place, whether a thoroughfare or not to which the public have a right of access, and includes any place or stand at which passengers are picked up or set down by a stage carriage;
(31) “public service vehicle” means any motor vehicles used or adapted, to be used for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward, and includes a motor cab, contract carriage, and stage carriage;
(32) “registered axle weight” means in respect of any vehicle the axle weight certified and registered by the registered authority as permissible for that vehicle;
(33) “registered laden weight” means in respect of any vehicle the total weight of the vehicle and load certified and registered by the registering authority as permissible for that vehicle;
(34) “registering authority” means an authority empowered to register motor vehicles under Chapter III;
(35) “school bus” means any motor vehicle used exclusively for the carriage of students of any educational institution recognised by Government or the managing committee of which is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860;
(36) “semi-trailer” means any vehicle which is so designed that when operated, the forward end of its body or chassis rests upon the body or chassis of the towing motor vehicle;
(37) “stage carriage” means a motor vehicle carrying or adapted to carry more than six persons excluding the driver which carries passengers for hire or reward at separate fares paid by or for individual passengers, either for the whole journey or for stages of the journey;
(38) “street (roadway)” means that part of the public highway which is intended for vehicular traffic;
(39) “tractor” means a motor vehicle which is not itself constructed to carry any load (other than equipment used for the purpose of propulsion) the unladen weight of which does not exceed 16,000 pounds avoirdupois but does not include a road-roller;
(40) “traffic signs” includes all signals, warning sign posts, direction posts, or other devices for the information, guidance or direction of drivers of motor vehicles;
(41) “trailer” means any vehicle other than a side-car drawn or intended to be drawn by a motor vehicle;
(42) “transport vehicle” means a public service vehicle, a goods vehicle, a locomotive or a tractor [* * *];
(43) “unladen weight” means the weight of a vehicle or trailer, including all equipment ordinarily used within the vehicle or trailer when working, but excluding the weight of the driver or attendant; and where alternative parts or bodies are used, the unladen weight of the vehicle means the weight of the vehicle with the heaviest such alternative part of body;
(44) “weight” means the total weight transmitted for the time being by the wheels of a vehicle to the surface on which the vehicle rests.
