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Eligibility of licence holder to attend Course, etc.

Road Traffic (Driver Improvement Points System) Rules

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—(1) The Deputy Commissioner of Police must issue a notice of eligibility to a licence holder if —(a)all of the following criteria are satisfied:(i)the licence holder is not either of the following:(A)a new driver in relation to any class of driving licence;(B)a holder of a foreign driving licence whose foreign driving licence has been held for less than one year after the date of the grant of that licence;(ii)no driving licence of the licence holder was revoked under section 35A(1)(a) of the Act in the immediately preceding 12 months;(iii)the driving licence of the licence holder is not suspended under the Act (including under rule 4);(iv)the licence holder is not prohibited, by a prohibition order under section 47F of the Act or rule 7, from driving a motor vehicle in Singapore;(v)the driving licence of the licence holder is not liable to suspension under rule 4;(vi)the licence holder is not liable to have a prohibition order under rule 7 made against the licence holder;(vii)the licence holder is not disqualified under the Act from holding a driving licence;(viii)the driving licence of the licence holder does not cease to be in force under section 35(10A) of the Act;(ix)demerit points awarded against the licence holder —(A)have been disregarded under paragraph (3), or have been cancelled under paragraph (3) as in force immediately before 1 November 2017, on not more than one previous occasion in the immediately preceding 10 years; and(B)have not been disregarded under paragraph (3), and have not been cancelled under paragraph (3) as in force immediately before 1 November 2017, in the immediately preceding 12 months; and(b)the Deputy Commissioner of Police awards against the licence holder for a scheduled offence (called in this rule the trigger offence) any demerit points which would result in the licence holder being awarded —(i)in any case where the licence holder is a person referred to in rule 4(2) or a holder of a foreign driving licence referred to in rule 7(2), a total of 4 or more demerit points within a period of 12 months; or (ii)[Deleted by S 627/2017 wef 01/11/2017](iii)in any other case, a total of 8 or more demerit points within a period of 24 months.(2) A notice of eligibility issued to a licence holder remains valid from the date the notice is issued until the earliest of the following dates:(a)the date specified in the notice to be its last day of validity;(b)the date immediately before any of the following occurs:(i)the licence holder becomes a new driver in relation to any class of driving licence;(ii)the driving licence of the licence holder is suspended under the Act (including under rule 4);(iii)the licence holder is prohibited, by a prohibition order under section 47F of the Act or rule 7, from driving a motor vehicle in Singapore;(iv)the driving licence of the licence holder becomes liable to suspension under rule 4;(v)the licence holder becomes liable to have a prohibition order under rule 7 made against the licence holder;(vi)the licence holder is disqualified under the Act from holding a driving licence;(vii)the driving licence of the licence holder ceases to be in force under section 35(10A) of the Act;(viii)the issue of a new notice of eligibility by the Deputy Commissioner of Police.(3) With effect from the date a licence holder successfully completes a Course (including by passing any test conducted during the Course), when making a calculation mentioned in rule 4(4) or 7(4) in relation to the licence holder, the Deputy Commissioner of Police may disregard 4 of the demerit points that would otherwise be taken into account in that calculation, if —(a)the Course is completed —(i)while the notice of eligibility issued in relation to the trigger offence remains valid; and(ii)within the period of 24 consecutive months or 12 consecutive months (as the case may be) mentioned in rule 4(4) or 7(4) (as the case may be);(b)demerit points awarded against the licence holder have been disregarded under this paragraph, or have been cancelled under paragraph (3) as in force immediately before 1 November 2017, on not more than one previous occasion in the immediately preceding 10 years; and(c)demerit points awarded against the licence holder have not been disregarded under this paragraph, and have not been cancelled under paragraph (3) as in force immediately before 1 November 2017, in the immediately preceding 12 months.(4) [Deleted by S 627/2017 wef 01/11/2017]

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