No. S 459
Road Traffic Act
(Chapter 276)
Road Traffic (Driver Improvement Points System) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 47F 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 (Driver Improvement Points System) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st November 1999.
Amendment of rule 2
2.  Rule 2 of the Road Traffic (Driver Improvement Points System) Rules (R 25) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “driving licence”, the following definition:
“ “foreign motorist” has the same meaning as in section 47F(4) of the Act;”.
Amendment of rule 3
3.  Rule 3 of the principal Rules is amended —
(a)by inserting, immediately after the words “driving licence” in paragraph (1), the words “or to a foreign motorist”; and
(b)by inserting, immediately after the words “driving licences” in paragraph (3), the words “and foreign motorists”.
New rules 7 to 10
4.   The principal Rules are amended by inserting, immediately after rule 6, the following rules:
Prohibition order against foreign motorist
7.—(1)  The Deputy Commissioner of Police may by order (referred to in these Rules as a prohibition order) prohibit a foreign motorist who has been awarded a total of 24 or more demerit points within a period of 24 consecutive months from driving all classes of vehicles in Singapore for a period not exceeding 36 months.
(2)  Subject to paragraph (3), where —
(a)a prohibition order has been made against a foreign motorist; or
(b)an order has been made by a court on or after 1st November 1999 prohibiting a foreign motorist from driving any motor vehicle in Singapore,
then, whenever subsequently the foreign motorist has been awarded a total of 12 or more demerit points within a period of 12 consecutive months, the Deputy Commissioner of Police may make a prohibition order against him for a period not exceeding 36 months.
(3)  Paragraph (2) does not apply to a foreign motorist who has not committed any scheduled offence for a period of 24 consecutive months from —
(a)the date of expiry of the prohibition order; or
(b)the date of expiry of an order made by a court on or after 1st November 1999 prohibiting him from driving any motor vehicle in Singapore,
as the case may be.
(4)  In calculating the number of demerit points for the purposes of paragraph (1) or (2), only such demerit points shall be taken into account as have been awarded against the foreign motorist within the period of 24 consecutive months or 12 consecutive months, as the case may be, calculated from the date of the first award of demerit points within that period; and all demerit points awarded before that period shall be disregarded.
(5)  Where the foreign motorist has not committed any scheduled offence for any period of 12 consecutive months (referred to in this rule as the relevant period), every demerit point awarded against him before the relevant period shall be disregarded for the purposes of calculating the total number of demerit points under paragraph (1) or (2).
(6)  The relevant period excludes the period any prohibition order against the foreign motorist, or any court order made on or after 1st November 1999 prohibiting him from driving any motor vehicle in Singapore, is in force.
(7)  Paragraph (5) does not apply if —
(a)the foreign motorist has committed a scheduled offence before the relevant period for which he has been awarded demerit points during or after the relevant period; and
(b)such demerit points, if added to the total number of demerit points awarded against him before the relevant period, would render him liable to have a prohibition order made against him.
Deputy Commissioner of Police to send notice
8.—(1)  The Deputy Commissioner of Police shall —
(a)notify the foreign motorist concerned by notice in writing of the date on which the Deputy Commissioner of Police intends to make a prohibition order against him; and
(b)require the foreign motorist to show cause within 14 days from the date of the notice as to why a prohibition order should not be made against him.
(2)  On the date specified in the notice, the Deputy Commissioner of Police shall, after taking into consideration such facts in mitigation as may be submitted by the foreign motorist, make such order as the Deputy Commissioner of Police thinks fit.
(3)  The Deputy Commissioner of Police shall, by notice in writing, inform a foreign motorist of —
(a)the provisions of rule 7(1) if the foreign motorist has been awarded a total of not less than 12 but not more than 24 demerit points; or
(b)the provisions of rule 7(2) —
(i)if a prohibition order has been made against the foreign motorist, or a court order has been made on or after 1st November 1999 prohibiting him from driving any motor vehicle in Singapore; and
(ii)he has subsequently been awarded a total of not less than 6 but not more than 12 demerit points.
Notice of prohibition order
9.—(1)  The Deputy Commissioner of Police shall, upon making a prohibition order against a foreign motorist, serve on him a notice of the order.
(2)  A notice of the order shall be deemed to have been duly served if it is addressed to the foreign motorist and sent by registered post to the foreign motorist’s last known address in Singapore, if available, or to his last known address in another country.”.
[G.N. Nos. S 220/94; S311/98; S 621/98; S 78/99]

Made this 15th day of October 1999.

PETER CHAN JER HING
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.
[LTA/VT/91/243-1-1; AG/LEG/SL/276/97/14 Vol. 1]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 141(1) of the Road Traffic Act).