Singapore legislation
Clause 120
Clause 120
Exemptions of officers and soldiers from tolls
(1)
All officers and soldiers of the Singapore armed forces on duty or on the march and their horses and baggage and all prisoners under military escort and all carriages and horses belonging to such forces or employed in such military service, when conveying any such persons or baggage or stores, or returning from conveying the same, shall be exempted from payment of any duties or tolls on embarking or disembarking from or upon any pier, wharf, quay or landing-place, or in passing along or over any turn-pike or other road or bridge, otherwise demandable by virtue of any law already passed or hereafter to be passed:Provided that nothing in this section shall exempt any boats, barges or other vessels employed in conveying the said persons, horses, baggage or stores along any canal from payment of tolls in like manner as other boats, barges and vessels.
(2)
Any person who demands and receives any duty, toll, or rate in contravention of this section shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.