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Active Mobility Act 2017 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Dealing in Personal Mobility Devices, Etc.

33. Selling personal mobility devices, etc., for use on roads

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Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2026. 3 amendments in all.

(1)

Subject to this Act, a person shall be guilty of an offence if —

(a)

the person sells, at any premises or place and in the course of business, any personal mobility device or mobility vehicle; and

(b)

at the time the personal mobility device or the mobility vehicle is sold or offered for sale, the person knows that, or is reckless as to whether or not, the buyer intends whichever as follows that is applicable:

(i)

to ride the personal mobility device on a public road;

(ii)

to drive or ride the mobility vehicle on a public road.

(2)

A person who is guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on conviction —

(a)

where the person is an individual —

(i)

to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both; but(ii)where the individual is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 24 months or to both; or

(b)

in any other case —

(i)

to a fine not exceeding $20,000; but(ii)where the person is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $40,000.

(3)

In any proceedings for an offence under this section, it is not a defence for the accused to prove that warning notices were displayed in compliance with section 31 on the premises at which and when the sale took place.

(4)

In this section, “sell” includes causing or authorising a person to sell.

(5)

To avoid doubt, this section does not limit the term “abetment” under the Penal Code 1871.

Terms defined in this Act

buyer
Defined · s 29
“buyer” includes a person by whom or on whose behalf an offer is made to buy;
Open s 29
mobility vehicle
Defined · s 2
“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;
Open s 2
personal mobility device
Defined · s 2
“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;
Open s 2
premises
Defined · s 2
“premises” means a building or structure (whether permanent or temporary) or part of a building or structure;
Open s 2
repeat offender
Defined · s 2
“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;
Open s 2
ride
Defined · s 2
“ride”, in relation to a bicycle, PAB, personal mobility device or mobility vehicle, means to travel in or on the bicycle, PAB, personal mobility device or mobility vehicle;
Open s 2
road
Defined · s 2
“road” has the meaning given by the Road Traffic Act 1961;
Open s 2
sell
Defined · s 2
“sell” means doing any of the following in Singapore:(a)sell (including resell) by any method for valuable consideration;(b)let for hire or hire‑purchase;(c)supply in exchange for valuable consideration or as a prize or reward in lottery or other game of chance;
Open s 2

Report

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Miscellaneous

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