PROVINCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES 1978 Pakistan Age limit in connection with driving of Motor Vehicles

PROVINCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES 1978 Pakistan

Age limit in connection with driving of Motor Vehicles

(I) No person shall drive in any public place.

(i) a motor cycle or an invalid carriage, unless he has attained the age of eighteen years.

(ii) a motor car, otherwise than as a paid employee, unless he has attained the age of eighteen years.

(iii) a motor car as a paid employee or a transport vehicle, unless he has attained the age of 

twenty one years.

iv) a heavy transport vehicle, unless he has attained the age of twenty-two years.

(2). (a) No person about the age of fifty years shall drive a transport vehicle in any public place

 unless the license entitling him so to do bears an effective endorsement by the licensing 

authority that such person has furnished a certificate in Form B as set forth in the First Schedule 

signed by a registered medical practitioner.

(b) The licensing authority shall not make on any license any such endorsement as is referred to 

in clause (a) unless it appears from the medical certificate furnished by the holder of the license 

that he is not suffering from any disease or disability specified in the Second Schedule or any 

other disease or disability which is likely to cause the driving by him of a transport vehicle to be 

a source of danger to the public or to the passengers.

(c) An endorsement made under the provisions of clause (a) shall be effective for a period of 

twelve months from the date thereof, but the said period may, from time to time, be extended by 

the licensing authority by a further period of twelve months at any one time, on the production 

by the holder of the license of a fresh medical certificate as required under clause {a) and on 

being satisfied therefrom that the holder of the license is not suffering from any disease or 

disability referred to in clause (b).

(3) No person shall drive a Motor Vehicle in a public place with his eyes wholly or partly

 covered with any cloth or opaque substance, or in such manner as to interfere in any manner

 with his vision.