Singapore legislation

Clause 79

of Land Transport and Related Matters Bill

Clause 79

Amendment of section 133

In the Road Traffic Act, in section 133 —

(a)

after subsection (1), insert —“(1A) Without affecting subsection (1), an authorised individual or an outsourced enforcement officer who has reasonable grounds for believing that a person has committed a prescribed offence, based on —

(a)

information provided to, or to which access is given to, the authorised individual or outsourced enforcement officer, by a police officer or an employee of the Authority authorised in that behalf respectively; and

(b)

an assessment framework for that prescribed offence prepared by a police officer or an employee of the Authority authorised in that behalf,may, on behalf of the police officer or employee of the Authority mentioned in paragraph (a) and in lieu of applying to a court for a summons, immediately serve upon that person a notice, requiring that person to attend at the court described, at the hour and on the date specified in the notice.”;

(b)

in subsection (2), after “notice”, insert “mentioned in subsection (1) or (1A)”;

(c)

in subsection (2), after “police officer”, insert “or the authorised individual, respectively”;

(d)

in subsections (3) and (4), after “notice”, insert “mentioned in subsection (1) or (1A)”;

(e)

in subsection (5), after “whom the notice”, insert “mentioned in subsection (1) or (1A)”;

(f)

in subsection (7), after “subsection (1)”, insert “or (1A)”; and

(g)

after subsection (7), insert —“(8) A reference to an authorised individual in this section is a reference to an individual who is —

(a)

appointed under this subsection by the Deputy Commissioner of Police as an authorised individual for the purposes of this section;

(b)

authorised by the Deputy Commissioner of Police to exercise the powers under this section; and

(c)

acting within that authorisation.”.

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