Singapore legislation
Section 23E
Section 23E
Employing, etc., untested rider, etc., on public path
(1)
Subject to this Act, a person commits an offence if —
the person employs, or intentionally or negligently allows, an individual to drive or ride a test‑needed‑to‑drive vehicle of a class or description on a public path;
the individual in paragraph (a) is not granted a competency test certificate for that class or description of test‑needed‑to‑drive vehicle and is not excluded under section 23D(2); and
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‑drive vehicle.
(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‑drive 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 drive or ride a test‑needed‑to‑drive vehicle within any part of those premises not comprising a public path.
(3)
A person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on conviction —
to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both; but(b)where the person is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.