Singapore legislation

Clause 44

of Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill

Clause 44

Validation of additional registration fees and additional licence fees, etc.

(1)

This section applies to sums purportedly collected under the principal Act by or on behalf of the Land Transport Authority of Singapore, or by or on behalf of the Registrar of Vehicles, as follows:

(a)

as additional registration fees under the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5) and before the date of commencement of section 9, in respect of motor vehicles that —

(i)

were first registered on or after 1 April 1998 but before 26 February 2013; and

(ii)

were exempt from the requirement for a permit or levy under section 10A of the principal Act;

(b)

as amounts payable under rule 67 of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules and before the date of commencement of section 9, in respect of motor vehicles that —

(i)

were first registered on or after 1 April 1998 but before 26 February 2013; and

(ii)

were exempt from the tax under section 11(1)(a) of the principal Act on first registration;

(c)

as additional licence fees under Part VI of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules and before 19 May 2013, in respect of any of the following vehicles which was more than 10 years old:

(i)

a taxi, or a bus, goods vehicle or goods‑cum‑passengers vehicle using diesel or petroleum as fuel and for which a licence starts on any date between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010 (both dates inclusive);

(ii)

a bus, goods vehicle or goods-cum-passengers vehicle which is a CNG vehicle, a petrol‑CNG vehicle, a diesel‑CNG vehicle, an electric vehicle, a petrol‑electric vehicle or a diesel‑electric vehicle;

(d)

as additional licence fees under Part VI of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules and before 12 December 2014, in respect of any of the following vehicles which was more than 10 years old:

(i)

an electric car;

(ii)

a petrol‑electric car or diesel‑electric car;

(iii)

an electric motor cycle or electric scooter;

(iv)

a CNG car, petrol‑CNG car or diesel‑CNG car;

(e)

as road‑user charges under rule 5 of the Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2015 (G.N. No. S 226/2015) for riding, driving or moving a motor vehicle, between 5.30 p.m. and 7.00 p.m. on any weekday between 4 May 2015 and 22 September 2015 (both dates inclusive), into any of the following specified entry points on the Ayer Rajah Expressway:

(i)

on the slip road from Clementi Avenue 6 into the Ayer Rajah Expressway on the eastbound carriageway;

(ii)

on the slip road from Clementi Avenue 2 into the Ayer Rajah Expressway on the eastbound carriageway;

(iii)

between the slip road into the Ayer Rajah Expressway from Jurong Town Hall Road and the slip road into Clementi Avenue 6 from the Ayer Rajah Expressway on the Ayer Rajah Expressway on the eastbound carriageway;

(f)

as administrative charges under rule 7(2) of the Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2015 and as composition sums, between 4 May 2015 and 13 August 2015 (both dates inclusive), from any person for riding, driving or moving a motor vehicle into any of the specified entry points on the Ayer Rajah Expressway during the dates and times mentioned in paragraph (e).

(2)

Subject to subsection (3), every sum mentioned in subsection (1) is, and is taken always to have been, by force of this section, validly imposed and collected under the principal Act; and no legal proceedings may be instituted on or after 10 January 2017 in any court on account of or in respect of any such collection.

(3)

However, nothing in subsection (2) applies to, or may be construed to affect —

(a)

any decision or judgment or warrant issued by any court given before 10 January 2017; or

(b)

any proceedings before any court commenced before 10 January 2017,in relation to the liability of any person to pay any sum mentioned in subsection (1)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (f), or the criminal liability of any person for riding, driving or moving a motor vehicle, between 5.30 p.m. and 7.00 p.m. on any weekday between 4 May 2015 and 22 September 2015 (both dates inclusive), into any specified entry point on the Ayer Rajah Expressway mentioned in subsection (1)(e).

(4)

All sums mentioned in subsection (1) must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.