Singapore legislation
Clause 24
Clause 24
Grant of bus depot licence or bus interchange licence
(1)
After considering any application for a licence under section 23, the LTA may —
on payment of a licence fee (if prescribed), grant the bus depot licence or bus interchange licence applied for; or
refuse to grant the bus depot licence or bus interchange licence, as the case may be.
(2)
In deciding whether an applicant should be granted a bus depot licence or bus interchange licence under subsection (1), and the conditions to impose or modify, the LTA must have regard to, and give such weight as the LTA considers appropriate to, all of the following matters:
whether the applicant is or is not a bus operator holding a Class 1 bus service licence;
whether the applicant does not have (or is unlikely to have) the financial capacity and ability to operate and maintain an adequate, satisfactory, safe and efficient bus depot or bus interchange at a bus depot site or bus interchange site, as the case may be, specified in the application;
whether the bus depot site or bus interchange site is fit to be used as a bus depot or bus interchange as the case may be;
whether the applicant and where necessary, whether —
every member of the board of directors or committee or board of trustees or other governing body of an applicant which is a company, limited liability partnership or other body corporate; or
every partner of an applicant that is a partnership,is a suitable person to be involved in the management or operation of the bus depot or bus interchange in the application;
whether it is otherwise contrary to the public interest for the bus depot licence or bus interchange licence (as the case may be) to be granted to the applicant.
(3)
For the purpose of determining whether or not a person referred to in subsection (2)(d) is a suitable person to be involved in the management or operation of a bus depot or bus interchange, the LTA must, having regard to the degree and nature of the person’s proposed involvement in the public bus system in Singapore, have regard to, and give such weight as the LTA considers appropriate to, all of the following matters:
the person’s relevant knowledge, competency and experience;
any evidence of the exercise of any power under section 39 in relation to the person —
for committing an offence under this Act; or
for contravening any notice or direction given under this Act;
any conviction for committing —
an offence under Part V of the Road Traffic Act (Cap. 276) or rules made under that Part in relation to buses, whether or not the offence was committed before the date of commencement of this Part; or
any other offence, whether or not the conviction was in a Singapore court and whether or not the offence was committed before the date of commencement of this Part.
(4)
To avoid doubt, the LTA is not confined to consideration of the matters specified in subsection (2) or (3) and may take into account such other matters and evidence as may be relevant.