For the purposes of the hit and run compensation provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, the…

Section 161(1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 gives "grievous hurt" the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code. As the IPC has been repealed and re-enacted by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, that reference is read as a reference to the BNS (section 8, General Clauses Act, 1897), which defines grievous hurt in section 116 (formerly section 320 IPC). The BNSS, the BSA and the Code on Social Security, 2020 do not define the term.