Singapore legislation
Section 42A
Section 42A
Disqualification for failing to attend court
(1)
The Public Prosecutor may apply to the court for an order disqualifying a person from holding or obtaining a driving licence if —
that person is accused of an offence under this Act or the rules or any written law specified in Part 2 of the First Schedule and had failed to appear before a court to answer the charge against him or her even though he or she had been served with the appropriate process of court requiring him or her to so appear before that court;
the court before which that person was to have appeared had, pursuant to his or her default in appearance, issued a warrant for his or her arrest;
that person has been arrested pursuant to the warrant and subsequently released on bail;
that person has been duly informed by —
the Deputy Commissioner of Police;
the officer who arrested the person; or
if the person is accused of an offence under any written law specified in Part 2 of the First Schedule, an officer responsible for administering such written law,that should the person fail to appear in court on the date next appointed for his or her appearance in connection with the offence of which the person is accused, the Public Prosecutor is to make an application under this section for him or her to be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence; and
that person has, without lawful excuse, failed to appear in court on the date next appointed for his or her appearance in connection with the offence of which he or she is accused.
(2)
Upon an application made by the Public Prosecutor under subsection (1), the court, if satisfied of the matters referred to in subsection (1)(a) to (e) and, having regard to the circumstances of the case and the behaviour of the accused person, is of the opinion that it is undesirable for him or her to continue to be allowed to drive a motor vehicle, may make an order disqualifying the accused person from holding or obtaining a driving licence until the offence of which he or she is accused has been tried and determined by a court or for any other period that the court thinks fit.
(3)
Where the court makes an order under subsection (2) disqualifying a person from holding or obtaining a driving licence for any period ending before the trial and determination of the offence of which that person is accused, the court may, on further application of the Public Prosecutor, extend the period of the disqualification if it thinks fit.