Singapore legislation
Section 24
of Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks and Compensation) Act 1960
Section 24
Rules
(1)
The appropriate Minister may make rules for prescribing anything which may be prescribed under this Act and generally for the purpose of carrying this Act into effect and in particular but without limiting this provision may make rules —
to prescribe the forms to be used for the purposes of this Act;
as to applications for and the issue of certificates of insurance and any other documents which may be prescribed and as to the keeping of records of documents and the furnishing of particulars thereof or the giving of information with respect thereto to the Minister or to the Deputy Commissioner of Police;
as to the fees to be paid to the Public Trustee for anything to be done under this Act;
as to the manner in which moneys received by the Public Trustee under this Act must be distributed;
as to the issue of copies of any such certificates or other documents which are lost or destroyed;
as to the custody, production, cancellation and surrender of any such certificates or other documents;
for providing that any provisions of this Act, in relation to motor vehicles brought into Singapore from a place outside Singapore by persons making only a temporary stay in Singapore, have effect subject to any modifications and adaptations that may be prescribed;
with respect to the payment of deposits under this Act and the investment of deposits or dealing with deposits, the deposit of stocks or other securities in lieu of money, the payment of the interest or dividends from time to time accruing due on any securities in which deposits are for the time being invested and the withdrawal and transfer of deposits.
(2)
All rules made under this Act must be published in the Gazette and must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication.
(3)
If a resolution is passed pursuant to a motion notice of which has been given for a sitting day not later than the first available sitting day of Parliament next after the expiry of one month from the date when the rules are so presented annulling the rules or any part of the rules as from a specified date, the rules or such part of the rules (as the case may be) thereupon become void as from that date but without affecting the validity of anything previously done under the rules or the making of new rules.