Singapore legislation
Section 45
Section 45
Power of Deputy Commissioner of Police to suspend driving licence
(1)
Despite anything in this Act, the Deputy Commissioner of Police may suspend a driving licence of a person for a period not exceeding 5 years if the person’s record (as kept by the Deputy Commissioner of Police) as a driver of motor vehicles or his or her conduct or habits as such driver establishes that it would not be in the interests of public safety for him or her to hold a valid driving licence or that the person is not competent to drive a motor vehicle.
(2)
For the purpose of establishing that it would not be in the interests of public safety for a person to hold a valid driving licence or that a person is not competent to drive a motor vehicle, the Minister may make rules establishing a system of awarding points against a person for the commission of an offence under this Act or the rules, and providing for the circumstances where any points so awarded may be cancelled or disregarded.
(3)
The Deputy Commissioner of Police may, under subsection (1), regard a person as not competent to drive a motor vehicle, or establish that it would not be in the interests of public safety for a person to continue to hold a driving licence, if that person is awarded, within a prescribed period, points prescribed for the commission of an offence or offences under this Act that are equal to or in excess of the maximum number of points prescribed (called the suspension threshold).
(4)
The rules made under subsection (2) must —
specify the number of points to be awarded for an offence under this Act, including points that distinguish between different offences under this Act or the circumstances in which any offence is committed or both;
specify when points may be awarded in respect of an offence under this Act, and the circumstances under which points awarded may be cancelled or disregarded for the purposes of subsection (1); and
specify the suspension threshold, the period over which the suspension threshold is calculated, and any other matters that are required to be prescribed for the purposes of this section.
(5)
Where the points awarded against a person under the rules made under subsection (2) reach 50% of the suspension threshold under this section, the Deputy Commissioner of Police must give written notice thereof to the person.
(6)
Where a person is disqualified by an order of a court from holding or obtaining a driving licence for a period of time specified in the order, every point awarded against him or her under the rules made under subsection (2) must thereupon be cancelled.
(7)
Where a holder of a valid driving licence commits on a single occasion more than one offence under this Act or the rules, points must be awarded against him or her only for the offence committed by him or her and in respect of which the largest number of points may be awarded against a person.
(8)
[Deleted by Act 12 of 2021]
(9)
In addition to the power conferred on the Deputy Commissioner of Police by subsection (1), if a person who holds a driving licence —
fails to comply with any process of court issued against him or her in respect of any offence committed by him or her under this Act or the rules or any written law specified in Part 2 of the First Schedule; or (b)is arrested under a warrant of court in connection with an offence under this Act or the rules or any written law specified in Part 2 of the First Schedule and the offence has not been tried and determined by the court,the Deputy Commissioner of Police may, as he or she thinks fit, suspend the driving licence held by that person until the Deputy Commissioner of Police is satisfied that that person has complied with the process of court mentioned in paragraph (a) or until the offence mentioned in paragraph (b) has been tried and determined by the court, as the case may be.