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Drivers and pillion riders of motor cycles to wear protective helmets

74.—(1) Every person who drives or is carried on a motor cycle shall wear securely on his head a protective helmet of a type approved by the Deputy Commissioner of Police.

[Act 28 of 2014 wef 01/02/2015]

(1A) The driver of a motor cycle (called in this section the motor cycle rider) must not drive the motor cycle where a person is being carried on the motor cycle (called in this section the pillion) so driven by the motor cycle rider unless the pillion is wearing securely on his or her head a protective helmet of a type approved by the Deputy Commissioner of Police.

[Act 12 of 2021 wef 30/06/2021]

(2) No person shall import, sell or offer for sale or have in his possession for sale any protective helmet which is not of a type approved by the Deputy Commissioner of Police.

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[Act 28 of 2014 wef 01/02/2015]

(2A) Once a type of protective helmet is approved by the Deputy Commissioner of Police for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), he must, as soon as practicable, cause to be published in the Gazette a notification specifying each type of protective helmet so approved by him.

[Act 28 of 2014 wef 01/02/2015]

(2B) However, failure to comply with subsection (2A) in respect of any type of protective helmet does not invalidate the approval for that type of protective helmet.

[Act 28 of 2014 wef 01/02/2015]

(3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (1A) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —

(a)	to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both; but
(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. [Act 12 of 2021 wef 30/06/2021]

(3A) A person is a repeat offender in relation to an offence under subsection (3) if the person who is convicted, or found guilty, of such an offence under that subsection (called the current offence) of contravening subsection (1) or (1A) has (whether before, on or after the date of commencement of section 19 of the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2021) been convicted or found guilty, on at least one other earlier occasion before the date on which the person is convicted or found guilty of the current offence, of the same offence of contravening subsection (1) or (1A).

[Act 12 of 2021 wef 30/06/2021]

(4) Any person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

[Act 12 of 2021 wef 30/06/2021]

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