Singapore legislation

Section 34D

of Road Traffic Act 1961

Section 34D

Rules for purposes of this Part

Amended by1/200610/2017

(1)

The Minister may make rules for the purposes of carrying this Part into effect and, in particular, may make rules —

(a)

specifying the roads in respect of which, and the days and hours during which, a road-user charge is levied;

(b)

prescribing the amount of road-user charge to be levied in respect of any specified road and for this purpose, road‑user charges of different amounts may be prescribed in respect of —

(i)

different specified roads or parts thereof;

(ii)

different hours of the day or different days of the week; and

(iii)

different classes, categories or descriptions of vehicles;

(ba)empowering the Registrar and any officer authorised by the Registrar to prohibit the entry into or exit from Singapore of any foreign vehicle if any unpaid road-user charges under this Act in respect of that vehicle is in arrears;

(c)

prescribing the manner in which road-user charges are levied and collected, including the use of electronic or computerised or other facilities therefor, and for this purpose, the rules may —

(i)

require all vehicles (whether registered in Singapore or elsewhere) to be installed with such devices and appurtenances and in such manner as may be prescribed before they may be ridden, driven or moved on a specified road during the prescribed hours;

(ii)

[Deleted by Act 1 of 2006](iii)prohibit the sale, supply, installation, repair or maintenance of any device or appurtenance prescribed under sub-paragraph (i) by any person not authorised by the Registrar to do so; and

(iv)

specify the conditions under which any device or appurtenance prescribed under sub-paragraph (i) may be removed from one vehicle and installed in another or transferred from one person to another; and

(d)

prescribing the records to be kept by the Registrar in connection with this Part and regulating the disclosure by the Registrar of any information in those records.

Amended by1/200610/2017

(2)

Where a person is convicted of an offence under the rules, the court before which the person is convicted may, in addition to the punishment prescribed for the offence, order the person to pay the amount of road-user charge as may be certified by an officer appointed by the Authority in that behalf to be due from the person at the date of the conviction and the amount may be recovered according to the law for the time being in force for the recovery of fines.

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