Under section 139(1)(c) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, the Central Government may prescribe driving…

Section 139(1)(c) lets the Central Government prescribe the conditions on which "persons entering India from any place outside India for a temporary stay" may drive motor vehicles here. Learner's licences, moves between States and licence renewals are dealt with under Chapter II. Other domestic powers exist elsewhere in the Act; their absence from this particular provision does not make them universally outside rule-making competence.