Licensing Authority:
(i). for the Districts of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, the Regional Transport Officer, Ahmedabad.
(ii). for the Districts of Bhavnagar and Amerli (excluding taluka of Kodinar), the Regional Transport Officer, Bhavnagar;
(iii). for the district of Kutch, the Regional Transport Officer, Bhuj.
(iv). for the districts of Panchmahals and Dahod, the Regional Transport Officer, Godhara;
(v). for the district of Jamnagar, the Regional Transport Officer, Jamnagar.
(vi). for the districts of Junagadh and Porbandar, the Regional Transport Officer, Junagadh;
(vii). for the districts of Mehsana and Patan, the Regional Transport Officer, Mehsana;
(viii). for the districts of Kheda and Anand, the Regional Transport Officer, Nadiad.
(ix). for the district of Banaskantha, the Regional Transport Officer, Palanpur.
(x). for the district of Rajkot and Surendranagar, the Regional Transport Officer, Rajkot;
(xi). for the district of Surat, the Regional Transport Officer, Surat;
(xii). for the district of Vadodara, Bharuch and Narmada, the Regional Transport officer, Vadodara;
(xiii). for the district of Valsad, Navsari and Dangs, the Regional Transport officer, Valsad.
(xiv). for the district of Sabarkantha, the Regional Transport officer, Himatnagar.
(xv). for the district of Amreli the Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Amreli.
(xvi). for the district of Bharuch, the Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Bharuch
(xvii). for the district of Gandhinagar, the Assistant Regional Transport officer, Gandhinagar.
(xviii). for the Taluka of Bardoli, Vyara, Songadh,Uchchhal, Nizar, Mahuwa, Valod, Palsana and Kamrej, of Surat District, the Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Bardoli.
(xix). for the district of Surendranagar, the Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Surendranagar.
(xx). for the district of Dahod (excluding Taluka of Devgadh Baria), the Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Dahod;
(xxi). for the district of Navsari, the Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Navsari.
(xxii). for the district of Narmada, the Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Narmada.
(xxiii). for the district of Anand, the Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Anand.
(xxiv). for the district of Patan, the Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Patan.
(xxv). for the district of Porbandar, the Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Porbandar. :
The authority empowered to hear appeals against the orders of licensing authority refusing to issue or renew any conductor’s licence or revoking any conductor’s licence, or disqualifying the holder from holding or obtaining a conductor’s licence under the provisions of sub section
(1) of section 34, shall in the city of Ahmedabad be the commissioner of Transport of Director Magistrate of the District in which the aggrieved person ordinarily resides. : The fees to be paid under Chapter III of the Act shall be :-
Appellate Authority
Fees payable under Chapter III of the Act.
(i). in respect of a test for grant of conductor’s licence under rule 30, thirty rupees.
(ii). in respect of a replacement of photograph on conductor’s licence under the rule 34, twenty rupees.
(iii). in respect of a duplicate conductor’s licence under the rule 35, ten rupees.
(iv). in respect of an appeal under rule 37, eighty rupees.
(v). in respect of each copy of any document under rule 37, forty five rupees. The licensing authority shall communicate with another licensing authority in Form C.L.COM, for the purpose of intimating:-
Form of communications:
(a). the renewal of conductor’s licence.
(b). the revocation of conductor’s licence
(c). the disqualification of a holder of a conductor’s licence
(d). the replacement of a photograph on a conductor’s licence
(e). the change of address. No person shall hold more than one conductor’s licence. The conductor of a stage carriage:-
Restriction on the holding of conductor’s licences:
Duties, functions and conduct of conductor’s of stage carriages:
(a). shall not loiter or unduly delay upon any journey but shall proceed to the destination in accordance with the time-table pertaining to the trip :
(b). shall not smoke while on duty.
(c). shall not interface with person mounting or preparing to mount upon any other vehicle.
(d). shall not allow any person to be carried in the vehicle in excess of the seating capacity specified in the certificate of registration of the vehicle, and any additional number of passengers permitted to be carried standing under the terms of the permit.
(e). shall not, save for good and sufficient reason, refuse to carry any person tendering the legal fare.
(f). shall not allow any passenger to be carried in the vehicle without payment of the legal fare. Provided that this clause shall not apply to any Government servant or class of Government servants on duty, as the State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf.
(g). shall not cause or allow anything to be placed in the vehicle in such a manner as to obstruct the entry or exit of passengers.
(h). shall not, save for good and sufficient reason, require any person who has paid the legal fare to alight from the vehicle, before conclusion of the journey.
(i). shall not be under the influence of any intoxicating drink or of a drug, while duty.
(j). shall behave in a civil and orderly manner towards passengers and intending passengers.
(k). shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent the goods or the luggage, from being miscarried, spoiled or lost, on the ways
(l). shall be cleanly dressed and in the manner specified by the State Government. Provided that nothing in this clause shall apply to persons lawfully working as conductors in accordance with rule 38. (m). shall maintain the passenger compartments in a clean and sanitary condition during its use in a public place.
(n). shall, in the event of the vehicle being unable to proceed to its destination on account of mechanical break down or other cause beyond his control, arrange to convey the passengers to their destination in some other similar vehicle, or, if unable so to arrange within a period of an hour after failure to proceed to the destination, shall on demand, refund to each passenger a proper proportion of the fare relating to the completion of the journey for which the passenger had paid the fare.
(o). shall, at the conclusion of every journey, make reasonable search in the vehicle for anything left by any passenger and shall take into his custody anything so found and shall, as soon as may be convenient, hand over the same to the permit holder.
(p). shall supply a ticket to a person traveling in the vehicle on the payment of fare by such person.
(q). shall, where goods are carried on the vehicle in addition to passengers, take all reasonable precautions to ensure that passengers are not endangered or inconvenienced by presence of the goods. (r). shall issued a ticket, immediately, on payment of legal fare or freight by the passenger.
(s). shall, on demand by any passenger, produce the complaint book for recording such complaints as the passenger may desire to record therein.
(t). shall, as far as may be reasonably possible, having regard to his duties, be responsible for the due observance of the provisions of the Act and the rules made thereunder.
Grant of conductor’s licence:
(1). No person shall be granted a conductor’s licence unless he satisfies the licensing authority that -
(i). he has adequate knowledge of the provisions of the Act and rules made thereunder relating to the duties and function of a conductor.
(ii). the applicant possesses a good moral character.
(iii). the applicant possesses a valid Adult First Aid certificate issued by St.John Ambulance Association (India) and,
(iv). he has passed the New Secondary School Certificate Examination conducted by Gujarat Secondary Education Board or an equivalent or higher examination. Provided that nothing in the clause shall apply to any person who is in possession of a conductor’s licence immediately before these rules come into force.
(2). An application for a conductor’s licence shall be made in Form L.Con. A such application shall be accompanied by –
(a). a proof of age and educational qualification
(b). a valid Adult First Aid Certificate issued by St.John Ambulance Association (India).
(c). a medical certificate in From M.C.Con. issued by a registered medical practitioner having a minimum qualification of a bachelor’s degree in medical and surgery ordinarily known as M.B.B.S. and practicing in the State of Gujarat and containing the following particulars regarding the medical practitioner :-
(i). Name and address in brief.
(ii). The name of the clinic, if any.
(iii). Telephone no, if any.
(iv). Medical qualification
(v). Registration number under the Gujarat Medical Council Act, 1967.
(d). a report of moral character obtained from the police station of the area in which the applicant resides.
(e). three copies of recent passport photograph.
(f). a fee for test, prescribed under rule 26. Provided that the licensing authority may decline to accept the aforesaid report or the medical certificate, granted more than one year before the date of application.
(3). Any officer of the Motor Vehicles Department of and above the rank of an Assistant Inspector of Motor Vehicles shall be the authority or for any person nominated by it in that behalf to have more than one test.
(4). When any application has been duly made to the appropriate licensing authority and the applicant has satisfied such authority of his competence to act as a conductor of a stage carriage, the licensing authority shall issue the applicant a conductor’s licence in Form L.Con. on payment of fees specified in sub-section
(5) of section 30, unless the applicant is for the time being disqualified for holding or obtaining a conductor’s licence.
Badge of conductors of stage carriages:
(1). A conductor of stage carriage shall display on his left chest a badge, in the form illustrated in the Second Schedule, inscribed with the particulars specified in the said Schedule.
(2). No conducts of a stage carriage shall display the badge held by him if his conductor’s licence is suspended or revoked by any authority or if his conductor’s licence has ceased to be valid by efflux of time. A conductor’s licence issued or renewed under the Act or the rules made thereunder shall -
Currency of conductor’s licence:
(i). if the person obtaining the licence, either originally or on renewal thereof, has not attained the age of fifty years on the date of issue or, as the case may be, renewal thereof .
(a). be effective for period of twenty years from the date of such issue or renewal, or,
(b). until the date on which person attains the age of fifty years, whichever is earlier.
(1). if the person referred to in clause
(i) has attained the age of fifty years on the date of issue or as the case may be renewal thereof, be effective for a period of five years from the date of such issue or renewal. Provided that every conductor’s licence shall not withstanding its expiry under this rule, continue to be effective for a period of thirty days such expiry.
Renewal of conductor’s licence:
(1). Any licensing authority may, on an application made to it in Form L.Con.R. renew a conductor’s licence with effect from the date of its expiry : Provided that in any case where the application for the renewal of a licence is made more thirty days after the date of its expiry, the licence shall be renewed with effect from the date of its renewal. Provided further that where the applicant has attained the age of forty years, the application shall be accompanied by the medical certificates in Form M.C.Con. and the valid Adult First Aid Certificate, issued by St.John Ambulance Association (India)
(2). Where the authority renewing the conductor’s licence is not the authority which issued the licence, it shall intimate the fact of renewal to the authority which issued the licence.
(3). Every application for renewal of a conductor’s licence shall be accompanied by a fee specified under sub-section (5) of section 30.
Replacement of the photograph:
(1). Where at any time it appears to a licensing authority that the photograph affixed to any conductor’s licence has ceased to be a clear likeness of the holder, the licensing authority may require the holder to surrender the licence forthwith, and to furnish two clear copies of recent photograph of himself.
(2). Where, at any time, if a holder of a conductor’s licence so desires, a licensing authority may replace the photograph on his licence by a recent photograph of himself.
(3). Upon the receipt of the copies of photograph as provided in sub-rule(1) or sub-rule(2), the licensing authority shall remove the old photograph from the licence, and shall affix and seal thereto one copy of new photograph, and note the date of such replacement, and return the licence to the holder, and shall if it is not the licensing authority by which the licence was issued, forward the second copy of the photograph to that authority.
(4). The fee for replacing a photograph under this rule shall be as provided in rule 26 and shall be paid alongwith the photograph and application.
Issue of duplicate conductor’s licence:
(1). Where at any time a conductor’s licence is lost, destroyed, torn, defaced or mutilated, the holder shall for with report the matter to the original licensing authority and shall apply for issue of a duplicate licence, in From C.L.D. along with the fee prescribed under rule 26, and two clear copies of a recent photograph of himself.
(2). Upon the receipt of such report the licensing authority shall, after making such enquiries as it may think fit, if satisfied that a duplicate may properly be issued, issue a duplicate licence duly stamped "Duplicate" in red in and the date of issue of the duplicate. Provided that where subsequent to the issue of a duplicate licence, it is found that there has been a endorsement by a Court since the date of the grant or last renewal of the licence, it shall be lawful for the licensing authority to call for the duplicate licence and make the necessary endorsement thereon.
(3). Where a duplicate licence has been issued upon representation that a licence has been lost, and the original licence is afterward found or received by the holder, the holder shall immediately return the duplicate licence to the issuing authority.
(4). If at any time it appears to an Inspector of Motor Vehicle or to a licensing authority that a conductor’s licence held by any person is so torn, defaced or mutilated in any way as to cease to be reasonably legible, such Inspector of Motor Vehicles or the authority may, by order in writing, impound the conductor’s licence and require the holder, to obtain a duplicate conductor’s licence.
Change of address:
(1). If the holder of conductor’s licence ceases to reside the address recorded in the conductor’s licence, he shall, within thirty days of any such change of address, intimate his new address, to the licensing authority by which the licence was issued, and if the new address is within the jurisdiction of another licensing authority, to that other licensing authority.
(2). Upon the receipt of such intimation, if it is not the licensing authority by which the licence was issued, the licensing authority shall intimate the change of address to that authority.
Manner of appeals:
(1). An appeals under rule Chapter III of the Act shall be preferred in duplicate in the form of a memorandum, setting forth concisely the grounds of objection to the order against which the appeal is preferred, and shall be accompanied by certified copy of that order and the fee prescribed under rule 26.
(2). Any person preferring an appeal shall be entitled to obtain a copy of any document filed with the licensing authority and connected with the order against which he is preferring the appeal, on payment of the fee prescribed under rule 26.
(3). The appellate authority may give any person interested in the appeal, a copy of any document connected with the appeal, on payment of the fee prescribed under rule 26.
Exemption from the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 29 :
(1). Where in an emergency it becomes difficult for the permit holder to provide for a conductor for his stage carriage, or where a conductor on duty, for reasons beyond his control, cannot perform his duties, the driver of a stage carriage may, for a period not exceeding on month, act as conductor of the stage carriage without holding a conductor’s licence required under section 29.
(2). Any person other than a driver of a stage carriage may act as a conductor without holding a conductor’s licence, for a period not exceeding one month.
Provided that:-
(a). he intimates in writing, his intention to do so to the licensing authority within whose jurisdiction he intends to act as conductor.
(b). he is not disqualified for holding or obtaining a conductor’s licence, and
(c). he as not on previous occasions acted as conductor without a licence for a total period exceeding one month. Any person can act as a conductor on the stage carriage of another State and operating within this State under any reciprocal agreement with that State or under the countersignature of stage carriage permit, if such person holds a valid conductor’s licence issued in that State and the person complies with the provisions of rule 29 while the stage carriage is being operated in this State.
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