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Formal Consolidation |  2012 RevEd
Failure to pay taxi fare
24D.  Any person who, having made use of a taxi service and without reasonable excuse, fails or refuses to pay the fare as indicated on the taximeter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 and, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
[37/2005]
Informal Consolidation | Amended Act 31 of 2015
Offence of not paying taxi fare
24D.—(1)  A passenger who hires a taxi in Singapore for a journey within or partly within Singapore must, at the end of that hiring, and upon demand by the driver of the taxi, pay for the journey the taxi fare chargeable in accordance with this Act.
(2)  A passenger who, without reasonable excuse, fails to or refuses to pay the taxi fare or any part of the taxi fare in contravention of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —
(a)to a fine not exceeding $1,000; and
(b)where the person is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
(3)  A person is a repeat offender in relation to an offence under subsection (2) if the person who is convicted, or found guilty, of an offence under that provision (called the current offence) has been convicted or found guilty, whether before, on or after the date of commencement of section 18 of the Public Transport Council (Amendment) Act 2015, of a qualifying offence before the date on which the person is convicted or found guilty of the current offence.
(4)  In subsection (3), a qualifying offence means —
(a)an offence under subsection (2); or
(b)an offence under section 24D of this Act as in force before the date of commencement of section 18 of the Public Transport Council (Amendment) Act 2015.
[Act 31 of 2015 wef 29/02/2016]