Singapore legislation
Clause 67
Clause 67
Regulations
(1)
The Authority, with the approval of the Minister, may make regulations necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2)
In particular, the Authority may make regulations for any of the following matters:
the construction, equipment and accessories of personal mobility devices, motorised wheelchairs and mobility scooters for use on public paths, including —
the lights to be carried by personal mobility devices, motorised wheelchairs and mobility scooters including the nature of such lights, the positions in which they must be fixed and the periods during which they must be lighted or otherwise; and
the number and kind of brakes, bells, horns or other warning instruments to be fitted to personal mobility devices, motorised wheelchairs and mobility scooters of any particular type or description;
a ban on the use on public paths of bicycles, PABs, personal mobility devices, motorised wheelchairs and mobility scooters in prescribed circumstances, being circumstances which may cause annoyance or danger to users of public paths;
a maximum speed for public paths of any type or description;
the precedence to be observed on public paths as between traffic proceeding in the same direction, or in opposite directions, or when crossing, and otherwise;
the behaviour of pedestrians and riders of bicycles, power‑assisted bicycles, personal mobility devices and mobility scooters, and drivers of motorised wheelchairs, on public paths;
the language, script and symbols for any sign or marking for public paths;
the records that are to be kept by persons who sell or repair personal mobility devices in the course of business for the purposes of Part 4 and the reporting of such sale or repairs to the Authority;
the form and minimum dimensions of a warning notice for the purposes of section 31, the text of such a notice and the manner of the display in premises;
the fees to be paid in connection with the administration of this Act, and the waiver, reduction or refund of fees charged.
(3)
Regulations made under this section may —
prescribe the offences under this Act that may be compounded;
provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both; and
provide for such saving, transitional and other consequential, incidental and supplemental provisions as is necessary or expedient.
(4)
All regulations made under this section are to be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.