Clause 13

Except as otherwise provided in this Ordinance, no person shall drive a motor vehicle of any class or description on a road unless he is the holder of a driving licence authorizing him to drive a motor vehicle of that class or description, and no person shall employ or permit another person to drive a motor vehicle on a road unless the person so employed or permitted to drive is the holder of such a driving licence, and any person who acts in contravention of the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance:Provided that for the purposes of this subsection, the expression “holder of a driving licence” includes any member of a Commonwealth Force stationed in Singapore who is in possession of a certificate or other document duly issued to such member by a competent authority to drive a motor vehicle of the class or description specified in such certificate or document, such motor vehicle being the property of a Commonwealth Force.

Applications for a driving licence shall be made in the prescribed form to the Registrar.

Every applicant for a driving licence shall furnish with his application two copies of his photograph and, in the case of a paid driver or of a person who desires or intends to be a paid driver, shall permit impressions of his fingers to be taken in such manner as the Registrar may direct.

On an application for the grant of a driving licence, the applicant shall, in addition to any declaration required under this Ordinance, state whether he has held a driver’s certificate or licence in any part of the world, whether any such certificate or licence has been endorsed, suspended or cancelled, whether he has been disqualified for holding a licence and whether he is under the provisions of this Part of this Ordinance disqualified by reason of age or otherwise for obtaining the licence for which he is applying.

Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Ordinance as to tests of competence to drive and as to the physical fitness of applicants for driving licences, the Registrar, except in the case of an applicant who is disqualified as hereinafter mentioned or of an applicant to whom in the opinion of the Registrar it would not be in the public interest to grant a licence, shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, grant a licence to any person who applies for it in the prescribed manner and makes a declaration in the prescribed form that he is not disqualified by reason of age or otherwise for obtaining the licence for which he is applying.

A driving licence may authorize the holder thereof to drive all classes of motor vehicles or such class or classes or such type or types within any class or classes as the Registrar may specify therein.

Where under the provisions of this Part of this Ordinance the applicant is subject to any restriction with respect to the driving of any class of motor vehicle, the extent of the restriction shall be specified in the prescribed manner on the driving licence.

Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to provisional licences, a driving licence shall, unless previously revoked or surrendered, remain in force for a period of either one year or three years from the date on which it was granted as the applicant may elect at the time of making application for such licence and on payment of the fee prescribed for that period.

A person shall be disqualified for obtaining a driving licence —

In any proceedings the fact that a driving licence has been granted to a person shall be evidence that that person for the purpose of obtaining that licence made a declaration that he was not disqualified for holding or obtaining the licence.

If any person is aggrieved by the refusal of the Registrar to grant a driving licence or by the revocation of a driving licence under section 15 of this Ordinance, he may after giving the Registrar notice of his intention so to do, appeal to the Minister and on any such appeal the Minister may make such order as he thinks fit and any order so made shall be binding on the Registrar.