Section 22 — Suspension or cancellation of driving licence on conviction.

22. Suspension or cancellation of driving licence on conviction.—(1) Without prejudice to the 

provisions of sub-section (3) of section 20 where a person, referred to in sub-section (1) of section 21 is 

convicted of an offence of causing, by such dangerous driving as is referred to in section 184 of any class 

or description of motor vehicle the death of, or grievous hurt to, one or more persons, the Court by which 

such person is convicted may cancel, or suspend for such period as it may think fit, the driving licence 

held by such person in so far as it relates to that class or description of motor vehicle. 

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 20, if a person, having been 

previously convicted of an offence punishable under section 185 is again convicted of an offence 

punishable under that section, the Court, making such subsequent conviction, shall, by order, cancel the 

driving licence held by such person. 

(3) If a driving licence is cancelled or suspended under this section, the Court shall take the driving 

licence in its custody, endorse the cancellation or, as the case may be, suspension, thereon and send the 

driving licence so endorsed to the authority by which the licence was issued or last renewed and such 

authority shall, on receipt of the licence, keep the licence in its safe custody, and in the case of a 

suspended licence, return the licence to the holder thereof after the expiry of the period of suspension on 

an application made by him for such return: 

Provided that no such licence shall be returned unless the holder thereof has, after the expiry of the 

period of suspension, undergone and passed, to the satisfaction of the licensing authority by which the 

licence was issued or last renewed, a fresh test of competence to drive referred to in sub-section (3) of 

section 9 and produced a medical certificate in the same form and in the same manner as is referred to in 

sub-section (3) of section 8. 

(4) If a licence to drive a particular class or description of motor vehicles is cancelled or suspended 

under this section, the person holding such a licence shall be debarred from holding, or obtaining, any 

licence to drive such particular class or description of motor vehicles so long as the cancellation or 

suspension of the driving licence remains in force.