Clause 82

No registration of any class, description or type of motor vehicles as registered goods under the EPMA provisions shall be valid after 31st December 2012.

Subject to subsections (4) and (5), an authorised dealer, manufacturer or importer of motor vehicles of a class, description or type which, immediately before the FEL appointed date, were registered goods registered under the EPMA provisions, may continue to sell or offer for sale those motor vehicles on or after that date in accordance with the EPMA provisions until —

Notwithstanding section 80(1) of this Act coming into force before 31st December 2012, subsection (2) shall continue to apply to an authorised dealer, manufacturer or importer referred to in subsection (2) as if section 80(1) of this Act had not been enacted.

Subsections (2) and (3) shall apply on the condition that the motor vehicles referred to therein are sold or offered for sale bearing the label in the manner required under the EPMA provisions.

Notwithstanding subsection (2) or (3), the registration of any class, description or type of motor vehicles as registered goods under the EPMA provisions shall be deemed to expire when any type-approval, batch type-approval or modified type-approval referred to in section 41 of this Act is obtained in respect of that class, description or type of motor vehicles.

For a period of 2 years after the FEL appointed date, the Transport Minister may, by regulations, prescribe such other transitional, incidental and consequential matters as he may consider necessary or expedient.

In this section —

“EPMA provisions” means Part XA of the Environmental Protection and Management Act (Cap. 94A) in force before the date of commencement of section 80(1) of this Act;

“FEL appointed date” means the date of commencement of Division 1 of Part IV of this Act.