Section 86 — Temporary provisions as to continuance of certain existing road transport permits.

86. Temporary provisions as to continuance of certain existing road transport permits.— (1)
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 88 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), a
permit granted by the State Transport Authority of the existing State of Jammu and Kashmir or any
Regional Transport Authority in that State shall, if such permit was, immediately before the appointed
day, valid and effective in any area in the transferred territory, be deemed to continue to be valid and
effective in that area after that day till its period of validity subject to the provisions of that Act as for
the time being in force in that area; and it shall not be necessary for any such permit to be
countersigned by the Transport Authority of any of Union territory or any Regional Transport
Authority therein for the purpose of validating it for use in such area:
   Provided that the Lieutenant Governor may add to amend or vary the conditions attached to the
permit by the Authority by which the permit was granted.
    (2) No tolls, entrance fees or other charges of a like nature shall be levied after the appointed day
in respect of any transport vehicle for its operations in any of the successor Union territories under any
such permit, if such vehicle was, immediately before that day, exempt from the payment of any such
toll, entrance fees or other charges for its operations in the transferred territory:




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    Provided that the Central Government may, after consultation with the Government of Union

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territory of Jammu and Kashmir or the administration of Union territory of Ladakh, as the case may
be, authorise the levy of any such toll, entrance fees or other charges, as the case may be:
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   Provided further that the provisions of this sub-section shall not be applicable where any such tolls,
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entrance fees or other charges of a like nature are leviable for the use of any road or bridge which is
constructed or developed for commercial purpose by the State Government, an undertaking of the
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State Government, a joint undertaking in which the State Government is a shareholder or the private
sector.