Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2019

No. S 249

Road Traffic Act

(CHAPTER 276)

Road Traffic
(Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing)
(Amendment No. 2) Rules 2019

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 34 of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Transport makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2019 and come into operation on 1 April 2019.

Amendment of rule 2

2. Rule 2(1) of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5) (called in these Rules the principal Rules) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definition of “business service passenger vehicle” and substituting the following definition:

“ “business service passenger vehicle” means a motor car registered in the name of —

(a)	the Government or a statutory board, company, firm, society, club or an association and is used for the owner’s business; or
(b)	an individual and is used for the purpose of any trade, business, profession or vocation,

but does not include —

(c)

a private hire car;

(d)

a motor car used —

(i)	for the carriage of goods other than samples;
(ii)	for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward; or
(iii)	for instructional purposes for reward unless prior approval of the Registrar has been obtained; or

(e)

a civil defence operations car or police operations car;”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “chauffeured private hire car”, the following definition:

“ “civil defence operations car” means a motor car owned by the Government for the use of the Singapore Civil Defence Force for the purposes of civil defence;”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “petrol‑electric vehicle”, the following definition:

“ “police operations car” means a motor car owned by the Government for the use of the Singapore Police Force for the purposes of maintaining law and order;”.

Amendment of rule 67

3. Rule 67 of the principal Rules is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph (1), the following paragraph:

“(1A) Despite paragraph (1), where a motor vehicle belonging to the Government ceases to be exempt from any fee, levy or tax payable under the Act because of the Road Traffic (Government Vehicles — Exemption) Order 2019 (G.N. No. S 253/2019), no amount becomes payable except for an amount of tax payable under section 11(1)(b) of the Act, which is determined in accordance with the formula:

(a)	A is the rate of the half‑yearly fee payable for the vehicle licence of the motor vehicle as at 1 April 2019;
(b)	B is the number of months between March 2019 and the month that the vehicle licence must be renewed (both months exclusive);
(c)	C is the day of the month that the vehicle licence must be renewed; and
(d)	D is the number of days in the month that the vehicle licence must be renewed.”.

Amendment of Third Schedule

4. The Third Schedule to the principal Rules is amended —

(a)

by deleting item 2 under the heading “Type of Vehicles” and substituting the following item:

“2.	Motor cars registered in the names of private individuals or car-sharing co‑operatives;

motor cars registered in the names of companies, business concerns, professional firms, societies, associations, clubs, etc., with a certificate of entitlement issued on or after 1st April 1998;

private hire cars registered with a certificate of entitlement issued on or after 1st April 1998; and

motor cars registered in the name of the Government or a Statutory Board on or after 1st April 2019, except for civil defence operations cars, cars used for fire‑fighting purposes, and police operations cars.

”; and

(b)

by deleting item 5 under the heading “Type of Vehicles” and substituting the following item:

“5.	Motor cars registered in the name of the Government or a Statutory Board that are —

(a)	registered before 1st April 2019;

(b)	civil defence operations cars;

(c)	used for fire‑fighting purposes; or

(d)	police operations cars.

”.

Miscellaneous amendments

5. The principal Rules are amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “in the name of” in the following rules, the words “the Government or”:

Rules 33D(2)(b)(ii), 33H(2)(b)(ii) and 39(1)(b) and (4); and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “1st April 1998 to” in rule 33E(1)(c), the words “the Government or”.

[G.N. Nos. S 678/2014; S 810/2014; S 359/2015; S 366/2015; S 650/2015; S 272/2016; S 46/2017; S 60/2017; S 327/2017; S 335/2017; S 550/2017; S 696/2017; S 777/2017; S 330/2018; S 424/2018; S 764/2018; S 879/2018; S 140/2019]

Made on 1 April 2019.

LOH NGAI SENG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[MOT.LT.396.3.01.2.19; LTA/L18.029.002/KT/DT/GVTE; AG/LEGIS/SL/276/2015/6 Vol. 6]

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

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