Singapore legislation

Regulation 13

of Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2015

Regulation 13

Offences

Subregulation 1

Any person who, when bringing or attempting to bring a motor car in respect of which a road-user charge referred to in rule 11 is payable out of Singapore —

(a)

fails to comply with rule 12(1);

(b)

in purported compliance with rule 12(1), inserts into a card machine at the relevant checkpoint a vehicle entry card the stored value of which is less than the road-user charge payable under rule 11 after deducting any toll for that motor car,shall be guilty of an offence.

Subregulation 2

Where the Registrar or an authorised officer has reason to believe that a person has committed an offence under paragraph (1) —

(a)

the Registrar or authorised officer may, by notice or otherwise, require the person to pay, in such manner as the Registrar may require, the road-user charge payable under rule 11 by the person and an administrative charge of $10; and

(b)

if the person complies with the requirement under sub‑paragraph (a), the person shall not be guilty of the offence.

Subregulation 3

In any proceedings for an offence under paragraph (1)(b), it is a defence for the defendant to prove —

(a)

that the road-user charge, or any road-user charge that cannot be deducted from the stored value of the vehicle entry card under rule 12(1), was not incurred by the defendant; or

(b)

that the defendant did not know and could not reasonably have discovered that the stored value of the vehicle entry card was insufficient.

Subregulation 4

In this rule, “authorised officer” means an officer authorised by the Registrar to administer and enforce this Part.