Under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, a person is entitled to a new licence free from endorsement if:

Section 25(3) of the Motor Vehicles Act generally requires three continuous years without a further endorsement, surrender of the licence and the statutory five-rupee fee. Speed-limit endorsements alone have a one-year exception; disqualification periods are excluded when reckoning either period. A five-year wait is not the prescribed minimum.