Singapore legislation

Regulation 29

of Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Construction and Use) Rules

Regulation 29

Illuminated area of direction indicator

Subregulation 1

Every direction indicator, other than a side or flank indicator fitted to a motor vehicle under rule 26(4) or (5) respectively, shall be so designed and fitted to a vehicle that both the minimum illuminated area showing to the front and the minimum illuminated area showing to the rear shall be —

(a)

not less than the area of a circle of 38 millimetres in diameter in the case of either a vehicle the unladen weight of which does not exceed 2 metric tons or a passenger vehicle adapted to carry not more than 15 persons, excluding the driver, if in either case the vehicle is registered before 1st January 1975;

(b)

not less than the area of a circle of 76 millimetres in diameter in the case of every other vehicle registered before 1st January 1975;

(c)

not less than 20 square centimetres in the case of a vehicle adapted to carry not more than 6 persons, excluding the driver, if the vehicle is registered on or after 1st January 1975; and

(d)

not less than 50 square centimetres in the case of every other vehicle registered on or after 1st January 1975.

Subregulation 2

Notwithstanding paragraph (1), every rear direction indicator fitted to the following vehicles shall be so designed and fitted that the minimum illuminated area showing to the rear shall be not less than the area of a circle of 88 millimetres in diameter or 60 square centimetres:

(a)

a public service vehicle registered on or after 1st July 1980, and adapted to carry more than 14 persons, excluding the driver; and

(b)

a goods vehicle registered on or after 1st July 1980, with an unladen weight exceeding 1,500 kilograms.

Regulation 29 — Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Construction and Use) Rules