(1) If the driving license is lost or illegible because of being torn or defaced or is destroyed in any other
manner, the driver shall have to make an application, in the prescribed format, accompanied by the prescribed fees, ⊗ to the competent authority for a duplicate copy of the driving license, no later than seven days after the date
of such loss, illegibility or destroy.
(2) If the contents are found correct upon necessary examination made in relation to the application made pursuant to Sub-section (1), the competent authority shall have to issue a duplicate copy of such a driving license to the
driver.
(3) The competent authority shall give information of the issuance of a duplicate copy of the driving license pursuant to Sub-section (2) to the concerned police office.