Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Driving Licences) (Amendment) Rules 2004

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Apr 2004

No. S 245

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276)

Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Driving Licences) (Amendment) Rules 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 48 and 140 of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Driving Licences) (Amendment) Rules 2004 and shall come into operation on 30th April 2004.

Amendment of rule 2

2. Rule 2 of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Driving Licences) Rules (R 27) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is amended by deleting the words “or a test to which a person may claim under section 37(4) or (8) of the Act” in the definition of “test”.

New rule 8A

3. The principal Rules are amended by inserting, immediately after rule 8, the following rule:

“Prescribed test

8A.—(1) For the purposes of section 37 of the Act, the prescribed test, in relation to an applicant for the grant of a driving licence or a licence holder, shall be the medical examination and the certification, by a medical practitioner at any hospital specified in the Tenth Schedule, that the applicant or licence holder, as the case may be, is fit to drive a motor vehicle.

(2) Where a licence holder is required to undergo the prescribed test under section 37(8) of the Act and he has previously undergone a medical examination by a medical practitioner at a hospital specified in the Tenth Schedule for the purpose of section 37(6) of the Act, the Deputy Commissioner of Police may, by notice in writing to the licence holder, require that the prescribed test be conducted by any other medical practitioner at any hospital specified in that Schedule.

(3) The costs of the prescribed test referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be borne by the applicant or licence holder concerned.”.

New Tenth Schedule

4. The principal Rules are amended by inserting, immediately after the Ninth Schedule, the following Schedule:

“TENTH SCHEDULE

Rule 8A

Specified Hospitals

(1)	Alexandra Hospital.
(2)	Changi General Hospital.
(3)	Institute of Mental Health/Woodbridge Hospital..
(4)	KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
(5)	National University Hospital.
(6)	Singapore General Hospital.
(7)	Tan Tock Seng Hospital.”.

[G.N. No. S 562/2002]

Made this 29th day of April 2004.

BENNY LIM

Second Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[TP6.2.15 / MHA 112/2/033; AG/LEG/SL/276/2002/3 Vol. 1]

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

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