Singapore legislation
Regulation 2
of Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) (Exemption) Order
Regulation 2
Exemption
Subregulation 1
The Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2015 (G.N. No. S 226/2015) (except rules 3, 4 and 7(1)(a) to (e) of, and the Second Schedule to, those Rules) do not apply to the following vehicles:
authorised ambulances;
fire engines;
(ba)authorised medical transport vehicles;
police vehicles;
any motor vehicle operated by the Singapore Civil Defence Force for use in a civil defence emergency (as defined in section 2 of the Civil Defence Act (Cap. 42));
any vehicle being towed by another vehicle.
Subregulation 2
In this paragraph —
Definition
“ambulance” means a motor vehicle that is specifically equipped for —
the transport on roads of; and
the provision, during such transport, of out-of-hospital clinical care to,sick or injured individuals who require emergency medical treatment;
Definition
“authorised”, for an ambulance or medical transport vehicle, means —
being specified in a licence (other than a revoked licence) under the Healthcare Services Act 2020 authorising the use of the ambulance or medical transport vehicle (as the case may be) to provide a licensable healthcare service specified in that licence; or
being owned by the Government and used for the purposes of the Singapore Armed Forces or the Singapore Civil Defence Force;
Definition
“medical transport vehicle” means a motor vehicle that is equipped to provide non-emergency patient transport services;
Definition
“non-emergency patient transport services” means transport services for fee or reward that relate solely to the provision of transport on roads of individuals —
whose medical needs have been assessed as requiring patient transport and not being time-critical or acute; and
who may require basic care and observation or clinical care and monitoring during transport.