Road Traffic Act 1961 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Provisions as to Use of Highways
114A. Regulation of use of excluded vehicles on expressways
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The Minister may make rules to prohibit, restrict or regulate the use of any excluded vehicle on an expressway.
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 subsection (1) may —
require the owner or driver of any excluded vehicle to —
obtain a permit from the Authority before using the excluded vehicle on an expressway;
comply with any conditions that may be imposed by the Authority when granting the permit; and
comply with any directions that the Authority or an employee of the Authority may give regarding the use of the excluded vehicle on an expressway, or the inspection of the permit granted to the owner or driver;
authorise, or empower the Authority or an employee of the Authority to authorise, the use of an excluded vehicle on any expressway on any occasion or in an emergency or for the purpose of crossing, or for the purpose of securing access by that excluded vehicle to any premises abutting on or adjacent to the expressway;
relax, or empower the Authority or an employee of the Authority to relax, in a particular case any prohibition or restriction imposed by those rules; and
prescribe the form and manner in which an application for a permit mentioned in paragraph (a) is to be made.
In this section —
“excluded vehicle” means a vehicle which is prescribed by rules made under subsection (1) to be an excluded vehicle for the purpose of this section;
vehicle
“vehicle” means any vehicle whether mechanically propelled or otherwise;
“expressway” means any road that is prescribed by rules made under subsection (1) to be an expressway for the purpose of this section;
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;
“use”, in relation to an expressway, includes crossing.