Harvester - Is Trade certificate a must.

Of late many number of harvesters are registered in almost all the offices.

Some doubts creep in while registering the harvesters. One such doubt is whether trade certificate is essential for harvester.

Harvester is a combination of tractor and the harvester mounted on it. So when tractor is registered with a trade certificate or temporary registration, what about the harvester a question comes to our mind

Rule 41 of Central Motor vehicles Rules 1989 stipulates the purposes for which the trade certificate can be used. All these purposes illustrate that trade certificate applies to vehicles which can independently propel or a vehicle in its identy. But harvester is only an attachment which needs a tractor to be used.

So there is no need to obtain any trade certificate for an harvester. Likewise while registering there is no need to collect any road safety tax exclusively for tractor and harvester separately. Only one road safety tax for the entire unit of one harvester will be enough.

The Transport commissioner in his letter no.98131/H3/2001 dated 27.12.2001 has explained the points about trade certificate to harvesters.