Singapore legislation

Clause 80

of Road Traffic Ordinance

Clause 80

Payment for licences by cheque

(1)

The Registrar may, if he thinks fit and subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, grant any licence upon receipt of a cheque for the amount of the fee payable thereon.

(2)

Where a licence is granted as aforesaid to any person and the cheque is subsequently dishonoured, the licence shall be void as from the date when it was granted and the Registrar shall send to that person by a registered letter addressed to him to the address given by him when applying for the licence a notice requiring him to deliver up the licence to the Registrar within a period of seven days from the date that the notice was posted, and if that person fails to comply with the request within that period he shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding one thousand dollars and if the licence is in respect of a motor vehicle the Registrar may on the expiry of the seven days proceed under subsection (8) of section 8 of this Ordinance. [81]