Legal glossary
“contract carriage”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
MV Act · s. 2
The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
(7) "contract carriage" means a motor vehicle which carries a passenger or passenger or passengers for hire or reward and is engaged under a contract, whether expressed or implied, for the use of such vehicle as a whole for the carriage of passengers mentioned therein and entered into by a person with a holder of a permit in relation to such vehicle or any person authorised by him in this behalf on a fixed or an agreed rate or sum—
Read section 2