PART 11
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Penalty for unauthorised ticket payment service
64.  Any person who contravenes section 28(1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $5,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.
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[30/2015]
Offences by bodies corporate, etc.
65.—(1)  Where an offence under this Act committed by a body corporate is proved —
(a)to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer; or
(b)to be attributable to any neglect on the officer’s part,
the officer as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(2)  Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with the member’s functions of management as if the member were a director of the body corporate.
(3)  Where an offence under this Act committed by a partnership is proved —
(a)to have been committed with the consent or connivance of a partner; or
(b)to be attributable to any neglect on the partner’s part,
the partner as well as the partnership shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(4)  Where an offence under this Act committed by an unincorporated association (other than a partnership) is proved —
(a)to have been committed with the consent or connivance of an officer of the unincorporated association or a member of its governing body; or
(b)to be attributable to any neglect on the part of such an officer or a member,
the officer or member as well as the unincorporated association shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(5)  In this section —
“body corporate” includes a limited liability partnership;
“officer” —
(a)in relation to a body corporate, means any director, partner, member of the committee of management, chief executive, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate and includes any person purporting to act in any such capacity; or
(b)in relation to an unincorporated association (other than a partnership), means the president, the secretary, or any member of the committee of the unincorporated association, or any person holding a position analogous to that of president, secretary or member of such a committee and includes any person purporting to act in any such capacity;
“partner” includes a person purporting to act as a partner.
(6)  Regulations may provide for the application of any provision of this section, with such modifications as the Council considers appropriate, to any body corporate or unincorporated association formed or recognised under the law of a territory outside Singapore.
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Jurisdiction of court
66.  Despite any provision to the contrary in the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, a District Court has jurisdiction to try any offence under this Act and has power to impose the full penalty or punishment in respect of the offence.
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Composition of offences
67.—(1)  The Council, or any officer of the Council or the LTA authorised by the Council, may compound any offence under this Act or any regulations made under this Act that is prescribed as a compoundable offence by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding $500.
[31/2015]
(2)  On payment of the sum of money, no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.
[31/2015]
(3)  All sums collected under this section must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
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[31/2015]
Recovery of sums payable
68.—(1)  Where any fee, contribution, financial penalty or other sum payable under this Act remains due and unpaid by a licensee, the Council may require the licensee to pay interest thereon at the prescribed rate, and any such fee, contribution, financial penalty or other sum, and any interest thereon, may be recovered by the Council in any court of competent jurisdiction as if they were simple contract debts.
(2)  The licensee’s liability to pay is not affected by the licensee’s licence ceasing (for any reason) to be in force.
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Moneys recovered or collected by Council
69.—(1)  All moneys recovered, and fees, charges, security deposits and performance bonds collected under this Act, other than licence fees and financial penalties, must be paid into and form part of the moneys of the Council.
[31/2015]
(2)  All licence fees and financial penalties collected under this Act must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
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Exemption
70.  The Council may by order in the Gazette and subject to such conditions as it may impose, exempt any person or class of persons from all or any of the provisions of this Act or any regulations made under this Act.
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Service of documents
71.—(1)  Any notice, order or document required or authorised by this Act or any regulations made under this Act to be served on any person, and any summons issued by a court against any person in connection with any offence under this Act or the regulations may be served on the person —
(a)by delivering it to the person or to some adult member or employee of the person’s family or household at the person’s last known place of residence;
(b)by leaving it at the person’s usual or last known place of residence or place of business in an envelope addressed to the person;
(c)by sending it by registered post addressed to the person at the person’s usual or last known place of residence or place of business; or
(d)in the case of an incorporated company, a partnership or a body of persons —
(i)by delivering it to the secretary or other like officer of the company, partnership or body of persons at its registered office or principal place of business; or
(ii)by sending it by registered post addressed to the company, partnership or body of persons at its registered office or principal place of business.
(2)  Any notice, order, document or summons sent by registered post to any person in accordance with subsection (1) is deemed to be duly served on the person at the time when the notice, order, document or summons (as the case may be) would in the ordinary course of post be delivered and, in proving service of the notice, order, document or summons, it is sufficient to prove that the envelope containing the same was properly addressed, stamped and posted by registered post.
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Amendment of Schedule
72.—(1)  The Minister may at any time, by order in the Gazette, amend the Third Schedule.
(2)  The Minister may, in any order made under subsection (1), make such incidental, consequential or supplementary provision as may be necessary or expedient.
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Regulations
73.—(1)  The Council may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for, or in respect of, every purpose which is considered by the Council necessary or expedient for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
(2)  Without limiting subsection (1), the Council may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:
(a)to prescribe the manner and form in which applications for ticket payment service licences are to be made, the documents to be submitted in support of such applications and the form of such licences;
(b)to prescribe a scale of fees for and ticket payment service licences;
(c)to prescribe the manner and form in which applications for the approval of bus fares or train fares, or a pricing policy for bus services or train services, are to be made and the documents to be submitted in support of such applications;
(d)to prescribe the date and manner by which any contribution is payable under section 50 to the Public Transport Fund, the penalties for the late payment of any such contribution and to impose interest for late payment of any such contribution or penalty;
(e)to require returns to be made by persons by whom contributions under section 50 are payable, and the conditions relating to the making of such returns;
(f)to regulate the procedure of the Council, to the extent not inconsistent with the Public Sector (Governance) Act 2018;
(g)to prescribe the powers and duties of the officers and employees of the Council;
(h)to control and regulate the conduct of the officers and employees of the Council;
(i)to prescribe the offences under this Act that may be compounded under section 67;
(j)to prescribe devices for the purposes of section 55 and the manner of using (including testing) those devices;
(k)to prescribe the processes for loading information onto a prescribed device or a prescribed computer system, copying or transferring information between prescribed devices or between a prescribed device and a prescribed computer system, storing of information by a prescribed device or prescribed computer system and producing a printed record of information stored by a prescribed device or prescribed computer system;
(l)to prescribe anything that is required to be prescribed under this Act.
[30/2015; 31/2015; 5/2018]
(3)  The Council may, in making any regulations, provide that any contravention of, or failure or neglect to comply with, any regulation shall be an offence and may prescribe a fine with which such offence shall be punishable but so that no such fine shall exceed for any one offence the sum of $5,000.
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