Singapore legislation
Clause 68
Clause 68
Penalties for neglect of traffic directions
(1)
Where a police officer in uniform is for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic in a road or where any traffic sign, being a sign for regulating the movement of traffic or indicating the route to be followed by traffic and being of the prescribed size, colour and type or of another character authorized by the Minister under the provisions of section 67 of this Ordinance, has been lawfully placed on or near any road, any person driving or propelling any vehicle who —
neglects or refuses to stop the vehicle or to make it proceed in or keep to a particular line of traffic when directed so to do by the police officer in the execution of his duty; or
fails to conform to the indication given by the sign, and any pedestrian who fails to comply with any direction given by the police officer in the execution of his duty, either to pedestrians or to pedestrians and other traffic, shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance.
(2)
In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (1) of this section, in so far as it is necessary to establish the offence charged, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that such sign was of the prescribed size, colour and type and that it was lawfully placed under the provisions of section 67 of this Ordinance. [69]