Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2006

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 01 Aug 2006

No. S 476

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276)

Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34 and 140 of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Transport hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2006 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2006.

Amendment of rule 2

2. Rule 2(1) of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “station wagon (passengers only)”, the following definition:

“ “tuition car” means a motor car that is used in the course of its owner’s business for instructional purposes for reward;”.

New rule 33D

3. The principal Rules are amended by inserting, immediately after rule 33C, the following rule:

“Re-registration of business service passenger vehicles as private hire cars or tuition cars

33D.—(1) The Registrar may, in his discretion, upon application in an approved form by the owner of a business service passenger vehicle that falls within any of the classes specified in paragraph (2), re-register the business service passenger vehicle as —

(a)	a private hire car; or
(b)	a tuition car in the name of a private individual.

(2) The classes of business service passenger vehicles to which paragraph (1) applies are —

(a)

a business service passenger vehicle which has been registered using a certificate of entitlement issued on or after 1st April 1998; and

(b)

a business service passenger vehicle which —

(i)	before 1st April 1998, was registered as a private motor car; and
(ii)	on or after that date, was transferred to and re-registered in the name of any statutory board, company, firm, society, association or club as a business service passenger vehicle.

(3) The Registrar may, in his discretion, upon application in an approved form by the owner of a motor vehicle that has been registered as a private hire car or a tuition car under paragraph (1), re-register that motor vehicle as a business service passenger vehicle.

(4) In granting an application under paragraph (1) or (3), the Registrar may impose such conditions as he thinks fit.”.

Amendment of rule 39

4. Rule 39 of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)	by deleting sub-paragraphs (f) and (g) of paragraph (1);
(b)	by deleting paragraphs (2) and (3); and
(c)	by inserting, immediately after the words “a private motor car” in paragraph (4), the words “or a business service passenger vehicle”.

Amendment of First Schedule

5. Part II of the First Schedule to the principal Rules is amended by inserting, immediately after sub-paragraph (j) of paragraph (2) under the heading “ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION FEE PAYABLE ON THE REGISTRATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES (OTHER THAN TAXIS) USING CERTIFICATES OF ENTITLEMENT ISSUED ON OR AFTER 28TH FEBRUARY 2004”, the following sub-paragraph:

“

(k) secondhand private hire car

Fee equal to 110% of the value of the vehicle plus $10,000.

”.

[G.N. Nos. S 812/2004; S 813/2004; S 226/2005; S 248/2005; S 398/2005; S 540/2005; S 90/2006; S 125/2006]

Made this 1st day of August 2006.

CHOI SHING KWOK

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[LTA/RY/L017.00; AG/LEG/SL/276/2005/3 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 141(1) of the Road Traffic Act).

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