Clause 67

The Minister may cause or permit traffic signs to be placed or erected and maintained on or near any road, and any signs so placed or erected shall be subject to and be in conformity with such general or special directions as he may give.

Traffic signs shall be of the prescribed size, colour and type except where the Minister authorizes the placing or retention of a sign of another character.

No traffic signs shall be placed on or near any road except under and in accordance with the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section:Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any notice in respect of the use of a bridge or to any traffic sign placed by the owners or workers of any tramway or light railway undertaking, any dock undertaking or any harbour undertaking or the Singapore Traction Company in pursuance of powers conferred by any special Ordinance.

The Minister shall, by notice in writing, require the owner or occupier of any land on which there is any traffic sign or any object which so closely resembles a traffic sign that it might reasonably be taken to be such a sign to remove it and if any person fails to comply with such a notice, the Minister may cause the removal to be effected with as little damage as may be and the expense incurred in so doing may be recovered as a civil debt from the person so in default:Provided that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply in the case of any sign or object which complies with the provisions of subsection (2) of this section and the retention of which is expressly authorized by the Minister.

The Minister may authorize the entry upon any land and the exercise of such other powers as may be necessary for the purpose of the exercise and performance of his powers and duties under this section.

In this Part of this Ordinance, the expression “traffic sign” includes all signals, warning sign posts, direction posts, signs, lines or other devices for the guidance or direction of persons using roads, but shall not include warning signs or other devices temporarily set up by any Government Department to indicate that road work is in progress.

Any person wilfully and unlawfully damaging, moving, defacing, altering or otherwise interfering with, any traffic sign shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance, and any police officer or the Registrar or any officer authorized in writing in that behalf by the Registrar on production of his authority may without warrant arrest any person found committing such offence.

The Minister may make rules to prescribe the size, colour and type of traffic signs to be placed on or near roads. [68]