Singapore legislation
Section 44
Section 44
Lodgment of street‑hail fares and street‑hail common pricing schemes
(1)
Within the prescribed period after a street‑hail fare pricing policy order is made for any street‑hail service but before it takes effect for the street‑hail service, every street‑hail industry participant providing that street‑hail service must —
determine the prices of street‑hail fares for that street‑hail service if no prices are set by that order; and
lodge with the Council those prices determined, together with any supporting information the Council may require.
(2)
Where a street‑hail fare pricing policy order for a street‑hail service permits a street‑hail common pricing scheme to vary one or more components of the street‑hail fare in the street‑hail fare pricing policy order, the prescribed street‑hail industry participants for the street‑hail common pricing scheme —
may start collective negotiations among themselves to determine the common prices of those components of street‑hail fares to be charged, or to vary those common prices, and the period during which those prices will apply; and
must lodge with the Council the street‑hail common pricing scheme with the common prices determined or varied under that scheme and the effective date of those prices, together with any supporting information the Council may require.
(3)
The common prices last lodged with the Council under subsection (2)(b) for any component of a street‑hail fare for street‑hail services have the effect of varying, from the date specified in the lodgment, any price set by the Council in the street‑hail fare pricing policy order for that component for those street‑hail services (even though not agreed to by all the prescribed street‑hail industry participants providing those street‑hail services) until the street‑hail common pricing scheme is terminated.
(4)
A group of licensed taxi drivers who drive taxis not owned by a street‑hail service licensee may appoint an association, organisation or a body (whether corporate or unincorporate) recognised by the Council for the purpose of this section to be a bargaining representative to negotiate a street‑hail common pricing scheme on behalf of the group.
(5)
To have effect, a street‑hail common pricing scheme for any component of a street‑hail fare —
must be in writing;
must be agreed to by the street‑hail industry participants prescribed for that component of the street‑hail fare;
must be made after following the procedure (if prescribed) in connection with the preparation and making; and
must state a process for dispute resolution.
(6)
A street‑hail industry participant may be party to more than one street‑hail common pricing scheme.
(7)
For the purposes of the Third Schedule to the Competition Act 2004, every street‑hail common pricing scheme permitted by a street‑hail fare pricing policy order is, when made, to be regarded as an agreement made in order to comply with a legal requirement.[23C