Singapore legislation

Clause 11

of Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill

Clause 11

New section 114A

The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 114, the following section:“Regulation of use of excluded vehicles on expressways114A.—

(1)

The Minister may make rules to prohibit, restrict or regulate the use of any excluded vehicle on an expressway.(2) Rules made under subsection (1) may —

(a)

require the owner or driver of any excluded vehicle to —

(i)

obtain a permit from the Authority before using the excluded vehicle on an expressway;

(ii)

comply with such conditions as may be imposed by the Authority when granting the permit; and

(iii)

comply with such directions as the Authority or an employee thereof may give regarding the use of the excluded vehicle on an expressway, or the inspection of the permit granted to such owner or driver;

(b)

authorise, or empower the Authority or an employee thereof to authorise, the use of an excluded vehicle on any expressway on any occasion or in an emergency or for the purpose of crossing, or for the purpose of securing access by that excluded vehicle to any premises abutting on or adjacent to the expressway;

(c)

relax, or empower the Authority or an employee thereof to relax, in a particular case any prohibition or restriction imposed by such rules; and

(d)

prescribe the form and manner in which an application for a permit referred to in paragraph (a) is to be made.(3) In this section —“excluded vehicle” means a vehicle which is prescribed by rules made under subsection (1) to be an excluded vehicle for the purpose of this section;“expressway” means any road that is prescribed by rules made under subsection (1) to be an expressway for the purpose of this section;“use”, in relation to an expressway, includes crossing.”.