Road Traffic Act 1961 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Provisions as to Use of Highways
120. Duty to comply with traffic directions and traffic signs
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Where a police officer, an employee of the Authority or a security officer, who is in uniform, is for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic on a road —
police officer
“police officer” includes any person employed for police duties in the Singapore Police Force constituted under the Police Force Act 2004;
any person driving or propelling any vehicle must stop the vehicle or make it proceed in or keep to a particular line of traffic when directed to do so by the police officer, employee of the Authority or security officer (as the case may be) in the execution of his or her duty; and
any pedestrian must comply with any direction given by the police officer, employee of the Authority or security officer (as the case may be) in the execution of his or her duty, either to pedestrians or to pedestrians and other traffic.
Where a police officer or a security officer, who is in uniform, is for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic on a road at any place where there are traffic light signals regulating the movement of traffic, any person driving a vehicle must comply with the directions given by the police officer or security officer even though the traffic light signals indicate otherwise.
security officer
“security officer” means a licensed security officer within the meaning of the Private Security Industry Act 2007 who is authorised by the Deputy Commissioner of Police or the Authority (as appropriate) under section 142B to regulate traffic under any provision of this Act;
Where any traffic sign, being a sign for regulating the movement of traffic or indicating the route to be followed by traffic, has been lawfully placed on or near any road pursuant to section 119, any person driving or propelling any vehicle must comply with the indication given by the sign.
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;
Any person who fails to comply with subsection (1), (2) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence.
In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (3), insofar as it is necessary to establish the offence charged, it is presumed until the contrary is proved that the sign was of the prescribed size, colour and type and that it was lawfully placed under section 119.