Singapore legislation
Clause 14
Clause 14
Tests of competence to drive of new applicants for driving licences
(1)
A driving licence shall not be granted to any applicant unless he satisfies the Registrar that he has at some time passed the prescribed test of competence to drive:Provided that the Registrar may, notwithstanding the foregoing provision, grant a driving licence to an applicant who satisfies him that at some time within three years before the date on which he makes the application he has held a driver’s certificate or licence issued by the competent authority in any country authorizing him to drive motor vehicles of the class or description which he would be authorized to drive by the licence applied for.
(2)
For the purpose of enabling the applicant for the grant of a driving licence to learn to drive a motor vehicle with a view to passing a test under this section, the Registrar may, if so requested by him and on payment of the prescribed fee, grant him a provisional licence to be in force for a period of six months, which licence shall be in the prescribed form and granted subject to the prescribed conditions. If any person to whom such a provisional licence is granted fails to comply with any of the conditions subject to which it is granted, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance.
(3)
The court before which a person is convicted of an offence under section 24 or 25 of this Ordinance may, whether he has previously passed the prescribed test of competence to drive or not and whether or not the court makes an order under section 19 of this Ordinance disqualifying him from holding or obtaining a licence to drive a motor vehicle, order him to be disqualified for holding or obtaining a licence to drive a motor vehicle until he has since the date of the order passed the test.
(4)
The provisions of this Ordinance which have effect where an order disqualifying a person for holding or obtaining a driving licence is made shall have effect in relation to a disqualification by virtue of an order under this section subject to the following modifications: —
notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (9) of section 13 or of subsection (3) of section 20 of this Ordinance, the person disqualified shall (unless he is disqualified for holding or obtaining a driving licence otherwise than by virtue of an order under this section) be entitled to obtain and to hold a provisional driving licence to be granted (where the person disqualified is the holder of a driving licence granted by the Registrar) under subsection (2) of this section and to drive a motor vehicle in accordance with the conditions subject to which the provisional driving licence is granted;
the disqualification shall be deemed to have expired on production to the Registrar of evidence that the person has since the order was made passed the prescribed test;
on the return to the person disqualified of any driving licence held by him or on the issue to him of such a licence there shall be added to the endorsed particulars of the disqualification a statement that the person disqualified has since the order was made passed the prescribed test.