Singapore legislation

Regulation 51

of Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (Changi Airport) By-laws 2009

Regulation 51

Parking in dangerous, etc., manner or abandoning vehicle

Subregulation 1

No person shall park a vehicle or cause or permit a vehicle to remain at rest on any road in the cargo handling area in such a position, condition or circumstances as to be likely to cause danger, obstruction or undue inconvenience to other users of the road or to traffic in the cargo handling area.

Subregulation 2

No person shall park a vehicle or cause or permit a vehicle to remain at rest in the cargo handling area in such condition or circumstances as to appear to the airport licensee to have been abandoned without lawful authority.

Subregulation 3

If any vehicle is parked in contravention of paragraph (1), the airport licensee may remove or cause the vehicle to be removed to and detained at a place of safety or any other place.

Subregulation 4

If any vehicle appears to the airport licensee to have been abandoned in the cargo handling area without lawful authority, the airport licensee may —

(a)

remove or cause the vehicle to be removed to a place of safety or any other place and detain it thereat; or

(b)

prevent the removal of the vehicle from the cargo handling area by fixing an immobilisation device to the vehicle.

Subregulation 5

Where the airport licensee has removed any vehicle to a place of safety or any other place or fixed an immobilisation device to the vehicle, the airport licensee shall give notice in writing to the owner of the vehicle as to the procedure by which he may secure the release of the vehicle.

Subregulation 6

No vehicle to which an immobilisation device has been fixed in accordance with this by-law shall be released to the owner of the vehicle except upon the owner of the vehicle having paid the fee for removal of the immobilisation device specified in the Second Schedule and such parking fees (if applicable) as the airport licensee may lawfully impose.

Subregulation 7

In this by-law, “immobilisation device” has the same meaning as in by-law 31(7).