Singapore legislation

Clause 11

of Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill

Clause 11

Amendment of section 48

Section 48 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the word “granting” in paragraph (a), the words “and renewal”;

(b)

by deleting paragraph (i) and substituting the following paragraph:“(i)to prescribe the circumstances in which a person may be required to be certified by a registered medical practitioner as fit to drive a vehicle, or may be required by the Deputy Commissioner of Police to pass any prescribed test of competence to drive, before the granting or renewal of the person’s driving licence.”; and

(c)

by renumbering the section as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsection:“(2) The Minister may by such rules confer on the Deputy Commissioner of Police a discretion to waive, in any particular case, the application of any of those rules to or in relation to any person subject to such conditions as the Deputy Commissioner of Police may impose.”.