Clause 8

Where any provision of this Act empowers —

a court to order that a person be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence; or

the Deputy Commissioner of Police to suspend a driving licence of any person,such provision shall, in relation to a foreign motorist, be read as empowering the court or the Deputy Commissioner of Police to make an order (referred to hereinafter as a prohibition order) prohibiting such foreign motorist from driving any motor vehicle in Singapore for the same period for which the court or the Deputy Commissioner of Police may, by virtue of that provision, disqualify any person from holding or obtaining a driving licence or suspend the driving licence of any person, as the case may be.(2) Any other provision of this Act which relates or which makes reference to the disqualification of persons from holding or obtaining a driving licence or to the suspension of driving licences, including any provision which provides for the punishment of any offence committed by a person who has been disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence or whose driving licence has been suspended, shall, in relation to a foreign motorist, be read as if every reference in that provision to the disqualification of a person from holding or obtaining a driving licence or to the suspension of the driving licence of any person were a reference to the making of a prohibition order against the foreign motorist.(3) The Minister may make rules for modifying, in such manner as he may consider necessary, any of the provisions of this Act which relates or refers to the disqualification of persons from holding or obtaining a driving licence or to the suspension of driving licences in order that such provision may appropriately apply in relation to a foreign motorist against whom a prohibition order has been made under this section.(4) In this section, “foreign motorist” means a person resident outside Singapore who is temporarily in Singapore and who holds a valid foreign driving licence, but does not include any member of any visiting force or a civilian component thereof to whom section 38(2) applies.”.