MOTOR VEHICLES (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1942 - SECT 19
No contracting out of Act
MOTOR VEHICLES (THIRD PARTY INSURANCE) ACT 1942 - SECT 19
No contracting out of Act
19 No contracting out of Act
(1) Any provision, stipulation, covenant or condition in any agreement
(whether made before or after the commencement of this Act) which negatives,
limits or modifies or purports to negative, limit or modify the operation of
the provisions of this Act shall be void and of no effect.
(2) Any contract
whereby the liability of the owner of a public motor vehicle used for the
conveyance of passengers in respect of the death of or bodily injury to any
passenger thereon is negatived, limited or modified shall be void.
(3) In
this section
"passenger" includes any person (other than the driver) who is in or upon,
entering or getting on to or alighting from the motor vehicle.
