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Short title and commencement.—(1) These rules may be called the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989.  \n(2) Save as otherwise provided in sub-rule (3) 2 [and sub-rule (2) of rule 103,] these rules shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1989.  \n(3) The provisions of 2 [rule 9 ,] sub-rule (3) of rule 16 , sub-rule (4) of rule 96, 3 [* * *] subrule (3) of rule 105, rule 113, sub-rules (2), (3), (4) or (5) of rule 115, rules 118, 122, 124, 125, 126 and 127 shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.  \n2. Definitions.—In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires—  \n(a) \"Act\" means the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988); 4  \n[(b) \"agricultural tractor\" means any mechanically propelled 4-wheel vehicle designed to work with suitable implements for various field operations and/or trailers to transport agricultural materials. Agricultural tractor is a non-transport vehicle;  \n(c) \"agricultural trailer\" means a trailer generally left uncovered with single/double axle construction which is coupled to an agricultural tractor by means of two hooks and predominantly used for transporting agricultural materials;]  \n5  \n[(ca) \"combine harvester‖ means an agricultural equipment vehicle, self-propelled or agricultural tractor powered type (either coupled to the trailer for header assembly or any other attachment of the machine) designed to perform more than one of the following tasks namely :-  \n(i) Picking, harvesting, threshing, separating, cleaning, chopping, collecting and unloading crop or agricultural produce, such as a grain, sugarcane, cotton, fodder, straw or stalk, while moving through the standing crop or agricultural produce;  \n(ii) Agreement of bagging with a pick-up attachment to use it for handling crop that has been swathed.  \nExplanation.– For the purpose of these clause, a combine harvester shall be a non-transport motor vehicle, the driving on the road of which is incidental to the main intended use in the fields and for travelling from one field to another, for short durations, at a speed not exceeding thirty kilometer per hour;]  \n1 Vide G.S.R. 590 (E), dated 2-6-1989, published in the Gazelle of India, Ext., Pi. 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