Singapore legislation

Clause 11

of Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill

Clause 11

Amendment of section 68

Section 68 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) Any person who when in charge of a motor vehicle which is on a road or other public place but not driving the vehicle —

(a)

is unfit to drive in that he is under the influence of drink or of a drug or an intoxicating substance to such an extent as to be incapable of having proper control of a vehicle; or

(b)

has so much alcohol in his body that the proportion of it in his breath or blood exceeds the prescribed limit,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine of not less than $1,000 and not more than $5,000 and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months.(1A) For the purpose of subsection (1), a person shall be deemed not to have been in charge of a motor vehicle if he proves —

(a)

that at the material time the circumstances were such that there was no likelihood of his driving the vehicle so long as he remained so unfit to drive or so long as the proportion of alcohol in his breath or blood remained in excess of the prescribed limit; and

(b)

that between his becoming so unfit to drive and the material time, or between the time when the proportion of alcohol in his breath or blood first exceeded the prescribed limit and the material time, he had not driven the vehicle on a road or other public place.”.

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