Singapore legislation

Section 34

of Road Traffic Act 1961

Section 34

Rules for purposes of this Part

Amended by4/20067/20123/201710/20179/2020

(1)

The Minister may make rules for any purpose for which rules may be made under this Part and for prescribing anything which may be prescribed under this Part, and otherwise for the purpose of carrying this Part into effect and, in particular, may make rules —

(a)

to regulate the registration and licensing of vehicles, to prescribe the forms of application for and the contents of vehicle licences, and to provide special facilities for the licensing of motor vehicles brought into Singapore from places outside Singapore;

(b)

[Deleted by Act 4 of 2006](c)to prescribe the size, shape and character of the identification marks or the signs to be fixed on any vehicle and the manner in which those marks or signs are to be secured, sealed, displayed and rendered easily distinguishable whether by night or by day and to prohibit those marks, signs and seals from being tampered with;

(d)

to provide for the marking of prescribed particulars on any vehicle;

(da)to require any person to whom any vehicle is sold or disposed of or any person who sold or disposed of any vehicle to furnish any particulars of the sale or disposal that the Registrar may require;

(db)to require any person who is, in the course of business, selling or supplying, or offering or exposing for sale or supply, by retail, any vehicle on any premises or place —

(i)

to display warning notices about prescribed vehicles or trailers which do not comply with the rules made under section 6 as to construction, weight and equipment applicable to the class or description of vehicles to which that vehicle or trailer belongs; or

(ii)

to display in a prescribed manner or not to display any vehicles or trailers mentioned in sub‑paragraph (i), or advertisements about the vehicles or trailers, at the premises or place;

(e)

to prescribe the form of, and the particulars to be included in, the register with respect to vehicles for which a general licence has been taken out by a manufacturer, repairer or dealer and the identification marks to be carried by any such vehicle and to define the purposes for which the holder of a general licence may use a vehicle under the general licence;

(f)

to extend any provisions as to registration and provisions incidental to those provisions to any vehicle in respect of which taxes chargeable under this Part are not payable and to provide for the identification of the vehicle;

(g)

to provide for information contained in any records maintained by the Registrar with respect to the marking, registration, licensing or keeping of vehicles to be made public or to be made available, either without payment or on payment of the prescribed fee, to any persons that may be determined by or under the rules;

(h)

with respect to the form and particulars to be included in a notice under section 17(2)(b), the manner of giving the notice and the time at which it is to be treated as being given;

(i)

for securing that notice under section 17(2)(b) is not given in respect of a period of less than 30 days or more than 12 months;

(j)

as to the mode of calculating the period in respect of which notice under section 17(2)(b) is to be treated as given;

(k)

with respect to the mode of proving the giving of the said notice;

(l)

for deeming the said notice to have been given in relation to a vehicle in respect of any period or at any time if in the circumstances of any particular case the Minister considers it reasonable to do so;

(m)

to make provision with respect to the furnishing of information and production of certificates of insurance or security and with respect to the registration and identification of such vehicles (including vehicles belonging to the Government);

(n)

to prescribe the particulars to be marked on vehicles and trailers;

(o)

to prescribe any fees and costs that are payable for the recovery of any tax payable under this Act;

(p)

to prohibit the registration under this Act of used vehicles beyond a prescribed age-limit;

(q)

to prescribe a levy for the re-registration of a used vehicle in the name of the purchaser of the vehicle; (r)to regulate the registration, licensing, keeping and use of heavy vehicles; and

(s)

to regulate the registration and licensing of a replacement vehicle, and to deem the date of registration of the replacement vehicle to be the same as that of the vehicle which it replaced for any of the purposes of this Act.

Amended by4/20067/20123/201710/2017

(2)

Rules made under this section for the purposes of subsection (1)(da) or (db) may provide that any contravention of any provision of the rules involving a power-assisted bicycle shall be an offence and the offender may be liable on conviction —

(a)

where the person is an individual — to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 24 months or to both; or

(b)

in any other case — to a fine not exceeding $40,000.

Amended by9/2020
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