Singapore legislation

Section 47K

of Road Traffic Act 1961

Section 47K

Allowing untested rider, etc., on road

Amended by12/202112/202112/202112/2021

(1)

Subject to this Act, a person commits an offence if —

(a)

the person employs, or intentionally or negligently allows, an individual to ride on a road a test‑needed‑to‑ride‑on‑road vehicle of a class or description;

(b)

the individual in paragraph (a) is not granted a competency test certificate for that class or description of test‑needed‑to‑ride‑on‑road vehicle and is not excluded under section 47G(2); and

(c)

the person knows that, or is negligent as to whether, the individual is not granted a competency test certificate for that class or description of test‑needed‑to‑ride‑on‑road vehicle.

Amended by12/2021

(2)

To avoid doubt, subsection (1) does not apply to a person who carries on at any premises a business of selling test‑needed‑to‑ride‑on‑road vehicles allowing, in the course of that business and for the purpose of selling the vehicle, a customer of the business concerned at the customer’s request to ride a test‑needed‑to‑ride‑on‑road vehicle within any part of those premises not comprising a road.

Amended by12/2021

(3)

An individual who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on conviction —

(a)

to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both; but(b)where the individual is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.

Amended by12/2021

(4)

For the purposes of subsection (3), an individual is a repeat offender in relation to an offence under subsection (1) if the individual who is convicted, or found guilty, of an offence under subsection (1) has been convicted or found guilty on at least one other earlier occasion of an offence under subsection (1).

Amended by12/2021
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