Active Mobility Act 2017 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Dealing in Personal Mobility Devices, Etc.
31. Warning notices
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Subject to this Act, a person who is, in the course of business, selling, or offering or exposing for sale, by retail, any personal mobility device or mobility vehicle on any premises or place, must display or cause to be displayed within the premises or place a prescribed number of warning notices for personal mobility devices or mobility vehicles to be sold, or offered or exposed for sale at those premises or that place (as the case may be).
personal mobility device
“personal mobility device” or “PMD” means a wheeled vehicle that —(a)is built to transport people only (with or without carry‑on baggage); and(b)is propelled by an electric motor attached to the vehicle or by human power or both,and includes a skateboard, but does not include a bicycle, power‑assisted bicycle, motor car, mobility vehicle, non-motorised wheelchair, pram, stroller or trolley, inline skates, roller‑skates or a wheeled toy, and such other vehicle as the Minister may, by order in the Gazette, exclude from this definition;
A person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —
where the person is an individual —
to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both; but(ii)where the individual is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both; or
in any other case —
to a fine not exceeding $10,000; but(ii)where the person is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $20,000.
In this section, a warning notice relating to a personal mobility device or a mobility vehicle is a notice that satisfies the prescribed requirements for that warning notice.
mobility vehicle
“mobility vehicle” means —(a)a mobility scooter;(b)a motorised wheelchair; or(c)any other motor vehicle designed to carry an individual who is unable to walk or has difficulty in walking and prescribed for the purpose of this definition;
In relation to an offence under subsection (2), “repeat offender” means a person who —
repeat offender
“repeat offender”, in relation to any offence under this Act, means a person who —(a)is convicted, or found guilty, of such an offence (called the current offence); and(b)has been convicted or found guilty of the same offence on at least one other earlier occasion within the period of 5 years immediately before the date on which the person is convicted or found guilty of the current offence;
is convicted, or found guilty, of such an offence (called the current offence); and
has been convicted or found guilty, on at least one other earlier occasion within the period of 5 years immediately before the date on which the person is convicted or found guilty of the current offence, of —
the same offence; or
an offence under subsection (2) as in force immediately before 3 April 2020.