(5)Protection of passengers from weather. - (a) Every public service vehicle shall be either constructed with a fixed and water tight roof or equipped with a watertight hood that may be raised or lowered as required.Provided that the above shall not apply to the upper deck of a double-decked vehicle.(b)Save in the case of the uncovered top deck of a double decker, every public service vehicle shall have suitable windows, venations or screens capable at all the times of protecting the passengers from weather without preventing adequate ventilation of the vehicle, when the screens are made of fabric, the whole of them shall at all time be fastened securely to the vehicle.(c)Where glass windows or venetians are used, they must be provided with effective means to prevent their rattlings.(d)[ In the case of educational institution buses and medium or heavy passenger motor vehicles being used for the purpose of transporting school students, horizontal window steel bars shall be fixed on the exterior of the bus in such a manner that the distance between any two bars does not exceed twenty centimeters. [Inserted vide notification no. F 21/SECY/STA/97/PF/365 dated 22-06-1998.]
