Division 3 — Emergency directives
Emergency directives
32.—(1)  Subject to subsection (2), the LTA may, and in accordance with subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6), give such emergency directives as may be necessary to alleviate or minimise any risk —
(a)of death of, or a serious injury to, any individual from the provision of any point‑to‑point passenger transport service; or
(b)of damage to any property from the provision of any point‑to‑point passenger transport service.
(2)  The LTA must not make any emergency directive unless it is impracticable in the circumstances of the particular case for the LTA to make or amend any Regulations to effectively alleviate or minimise the risk concerned.
(3)  The LTA may give an emergency directive made under this section to all or any of the following, individually or as a class:
(a)a licensee;
(b)an exempt ride‑hail service operator;
(c)a provider of a street‑hail service or ride‑hail service which is exempt from section 9(1) or 10(1) (as the case may be) by an order under section 52.
(4)  In making an emergency directive under this section, it is not necessary for the LTA to give any person who may be affected by the directive a chance to be heard before the directive is given.
(5)  An emergency directive may be in force for a period not exceeding 6 months unless earlier revoked under subsection (6), and may be renewed by the LTA once only for a further period not exceeding 6 months.
(6)  The LTA may, at any time when any emergency directive is in force, revoke the emergency directive by giving notice of that revocation in the same manner as the directive was given.
(7)  So far as any emergency directive is inconsistent with the Regulations, the emergency directive prevails.
How emergency directive is given
33.—(1)  An emergency directive is binding on the person or class of persons to whom it is addressed and given.
(2)  An emergency directive that is addressed to a person is sufficiently given if it is served in the manner prescribed in section 51.
(3)  An emergency directive that is addressed to a class of persons is sufficiently given if it is —
(a)served on each of the persons in the class in the manner prescribed in section 51; or
(b)published both —
(i)in a daily newspaper circulating in Singapore or in any other news media that, in the opinion of the LTA, is most likely to bring the emergency directive to the attention of the persons who belong to the class; and
(ii)on the LTA’s official website.
(4)  Once such an emergency directive is made and given under this section, the LTA must also publish the making of the directive in a manner that the LTA thinks will secure adequate publicity for the fact of making and giving of the emergency directive.
(5)  However, failure to publish an emergency directive under subsection (4) does not invalidate the directive.
(6)  An emergency directive that is given —
(a)in accordance with subsection (2) takes effect when it is served;
(b)in accordance with subsection (3)(a) takes effect when it is served on all the persons in the class in question; and
(c)in accordance with subsection (3)(b) takes effect at the beginning of the day after the date on which subsection (3)(b) has been complied with.
General duty to comply with emergency directives
34.—(1)  An emergency directive may require the person it binds (according to the circumstances of the case) to do, or to refrain from doing, for a specified period, the things specified in the directive or the things that are of a description specified in the directive, including stopping any point‑to‑point passenger transport service within any part of Singapore.
(2)  A person to whom an emergency directive is given and who is required by the directive to do, or to refrain from doing, for a specified period, the things specified in the directive or the things that are of a description specified in the directive, commits an offence if the person intentionally or negligently fails to comply with the directive.
(3)  A person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (2) shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.