Singapore legislation

Clause 84

General provisions as to rules

(1)

The Minister may make rules for prescribing the language and script in which any traffic sign, notice, record, application, return or other documents shall be written and may make rules for any purpose for which rules may be made under this Ordinance and for prescribing anything which may be prescribed under this Ordinance and generally for the purpose of carrying this Ordinance into effect and in any rules made by him may prescribe penalties (not exceeding those provided by section 78 of this Ordinance) for any breach or failure to comply with any such rules.

(2)

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, the Minister may make rules with respect to any of the following matters or for any of the following purposes: —

(a)

regulating the relative position in the roadway of traffic of differing speeds or types;

(b)

prescribing the conditions subject to which and the times at which, articles of exceptionally heavy weight or exceptionally large dimensions may be carried along roads;

(c)

regulating the loads which may be carried on vehicles and prescribing the manner in which vehicles in or passing along a road shall be loaded and the precautions to be taken for ensuring the safety of the public in connection therewith;

(d)

prescribing the conditions subject to which, and the times at which, articles may be loaded on to or unloaded from vehicles or vehicles of any particular class or description, while on a road;

(e)

prescribing the precedence to be observed as between traffic proceeding in the same direction, or in opposite directions, or when crossing;

(f)

prescribing the conditions subject to which, and the times at which, horses, cattle, sheep and other animals may be led or driven on or along a road;

(g)

prescribing the conditions subject to which vehicles, or vehicles of any particular class or description, may be left unattended in a road;

(h)

prohibiting animals from being left unattended or not under due control in a road;

(i)

restricting the use of vehicles and animals, of sandwichmen and other persons in roads for the purposes of advertisement of such a nature or in such a manner as to be likely to be a source of danger or to cause obstruction to traffic;

(j)

restricting and regulating the use in roads of vehicles engaged in the erection, placing, removal, alteration or repair of lamps, overhead cables or road or street works;

(k)

restricting or prohibiting the washing of vehicles and animals in any road;

(l)

prescribing the lights to be carried on vehicles other than motor vehicles, or on any particular class or description of such vehicles, including the nature of such lights, the position in which they shall be fixed and the period during which they must be lighted;

(m)

prescribing and restricting the number and kind of brakes, bells, horns or other warning instruments to be fitted to vehicles of any particular kind or description other than motor vehicles or vehicles governed by the Singapore Traction Ordinance (Cap. 111);

(n)

prescribing the number of persons who may be carried upon pedal bicycles or pedal tricycles while on any road;

(o)

prescribing the general behaviour of traffic on roads.

(3)

All rules made under this Ordinance shall be published in the Gazette and shall be presented to the Legislative Assembly as soon as may be after publication and if a resolution is passed pursuant to a motion notice whereof has been given for a sitting day not later than the first available sitting day of the Assembly next after the expiry of one month from the date when such rules are so presented annulling the rules or any part thereof as from a specified date, such rules or such part thereof as the case may be shall thereupon become void as from such date but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new rules. [85]

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