law: The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
  88. Validation of permits 
  
  for use outside region in which granted.
  Provided that  a goods  
  
  carriage permit,  granted by the Regional Transport Authority  of any  one 
  
  region, for any  area in  any  other region or  regions within  the same  State 
  
  shall be valid in that area without the Countersignature of the Regional 
  
  Transport Authority of the other region or of each of the other regions 
  
  concerned:
  Provided further  that 
  
  where  both the  starting  point  and  the terminal point  of a route are 
  
  situate within the same State, but part of such route lies in any other State 
  
  and the length of such part does not exceed  sixteen kilometres, the permit 
  
  shall be valid in the other State in  respect of  that part  of the  route 
  
  which  is in that other State notwithstanding  that such  permit has not been 
  
  countersigned by the State  Transport Authority  or the Regional Transport 
  
  Authority of That other State:
  Provided also that--
  Provided that  it shall  not 
  
  be necessary to follow the procedure laid down in section 80 for the grant of 
  
  countersignatures of permits, where the  permits granted  in  any  one  State  
  
  are  required  to be countersigned by  the State Transport Authority of another 
  
  State or by the Regional  Transport  Authority  concerned  as  a  result  of  
  
  any agreement arrived  at between  the States  after  complying  with  the 
  
  requirements of sub-section (5).
  Explanation.--For the 
  
  purposes of this sub-section and sub- section (13), "company" means a body 
  
  corporate, and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and 
  
  "director", in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.
  Explanation.--In this 
  
  section,--