Road Traffic Act 1961 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Provisions as to Use of Highways
114. Traffic regulation on special roads
Feedback & supportThe Minister may make rules to prohibit or restrict the use of any special road by any traffic or class of traffic subject to any conditions or exceptions that may be prescribed.
Minister
“Minister” means —(a)except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c), the Minister charged with the responsibility for land transport;(b)for the purposes of the whole of Parts 2 and 3 and sections 75(1), 82, 112(1), (3) and (4), 113(1) and (2), 114(1), 116(2), 121(2) and 143(3) and (11), the Minister charged with the responsibility for law and order; and(c)for the purposes of sections 131B(7), 135(2), 140(1) and (2), 142 and 142A(1), the Minister charged with the responsibility for land transport or the Minister charged with the responsibility for law and order, as appropriate;
Rules made under this section may make provision with respect to special roads generally, or may make different provision with respect to special roads provided for the use of different classes of traffic, or may make provision with respect to any particular special road.
Rules made under this section may, in particular —
regulate the manner in which and the conditions subject to which special roads may be used by traffic of any class;
authorise, or enable the Deputy Commissioner of Police to authorise, the use of special roads, on any occasion or in an emergency or for the purpose of crossing, or for the purpose of securing access to premises abutting on or adjacent to the special roads by any traffic; and
relax, or enable the Deputy Commissioner of Police to relax, any prohibition or restriction imposed by the rules.
In this section —
“special road” means any road specified in the rules made under this section to be a special road, and includes any part of a special road;
road
“road” means any public road and any other road to which the public has access, and includes —(a)any road within Pulau Bukom;(b)any road within the limits of any installation of the Singapore Armed Forces declared by the Minister by notification in the Gazette to be an installation to which this Act applies;(c)any bridge over which a road passes; and(d)any road, to which the public does not have access, which the Minister charged with the responsibility for transport prescribes, by notification in the Gazette, to be a road to which this Act applies;
“traffic” includes pedestrians;
“use”, in relation to a road, includes crossing.