Under section 49(2) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, if the owner of a motor vehicle fails to intimate…

Under section 49(2) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (as amended by Section 21 of the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019, which raised the ceiling from one hundred rupees to five hundred rupees), an owner who fails to intimate a change of address within the prescribed period may be required by the registering authority to pay, in lieu of action under section 177, an amount not exceeding five hundred rupees as prescribed under sub-section (4). Late intimation is not a ground for suspending registration.