Description:
(1) Subject to the provisions of section 48, no motor vehicle other than the motor vehicles as may be prescribed shall be demand to be  validly registered for the purposes of section 32, unless it carries a certificate of fitness in Form J as set forth in the First Schedule,  issued by the Inspector of Motor Vehicles or any other prescribed authority, to the effect that the vehicle complies for the time being with  all the requirements of Chapter VI and the rules made thereunder; where the Inspector of Motor Vehicles or any other prescribed authority refuses to issue such certificate, it shall supply the owner of the vehicle with its reasons in writing for such refusal.
(2) The Authority may take regulations subject to which the certificate of fitness of motor vehicles may be renewed by the registered motor  workshops specially authorised in this behalf by the Authority by notification in the official Gazette.
(3) Subject to the provision of sub-section
(4) a certificate of fitness shall remain effective for a period of one year to be specified in the certificate by the issuing authority.