Singapore legislation

Regulation 26

of Active Mobility (Registration of Registrable Mobility Vehicles) Regulations 2026

Regulation 26

Offences connected with registration marks, etc.

Subregulation 1

A person commits an offence if —

(a)

the person has possession or control of a false registration mark; and

(b)

the person knows, or ought reasonably to have known, that the document is a false registration mark.

Subregulation 2

Paragraph (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.

Subregulation 3

A person commits an offence if —

(a)

the person makes a false registration mark with the intention of dishonestly inducing another person to accept it as genuine; and

(b)

by reason of the other person so accepting it as genuine —

(i)

obtains a gain (whether for the person or someone else);

(ii)

causes a loss to the other person or someone else; or

(iii)

influences the exercise of a public duty.

Subregulation 4

A person commits an offence if —

(a)

the person installs, affixes or displays on a registrable mobility vehicle —

(i)

a false registration mark that the person knows, or ought reasonably to have known, to be a false registration mark; or

(ii)

a registration mark that the person knows, or ought reasonably to have known, to be a registration mark not issued for that mobility vehicle,with the intention of dishonestly inducing another person to accept it as genuine or a registration mark issued for that mobility vehicle, as the case may be; and

(b)

by reason of the other person so accepting, the person —

(i)

obtains a gain (whether for the person or someone else);

(ii)

causes a loss to the other person or someone else; or

(iii)

influences the exercise of a public duty.

Subregulation 5

A person commits an offence if the person —

(a)

without the permission of the Authority, intentionally damages, removes, tampers with, defaces or mutilates any registration mark or identification mark installed, affixed or displayed on a registrable mobility vehicle; and

(b)

knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the person does not have that permission to damage, remove, tamper with, deface or mutilate the registration mark or identification mark.

Subregulation 6

A person who is guilty of an offence under paragraph (1), (3), (4) or (5) shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

Subregulation 7

A person may be treated for the purposes of this regulation as making a false registration mark if the person alters a label, adhesive or other document so as to make it false in any respect, whether or not it was already a false registration mark before the alteration or is false in some other respect apart from that alteration.