Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules

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3 Application for a licence

5 Vehicle to be clean and in good order

6 Maximum number of passengers

7 No person without a vocational licence shall drive a public service vehicle

8 Refusal to renew or revocation or suspension of licence

9 Return of licence upon revocation or suspension

10 Issue of duplicate licence

11 Registrar may compel production of vehicle for inspection

12 Periodic inspection, testing and approval of vehicle

13 Registrar may examine vehicle

14 Vehicle may be seized

15 No radio, television or acoustic equipment to be installed

16 Taxi to be fitted with a taximeter of a type approved by Registrar

17 Taximeter to be sealed and in good order

18 Responsibility of licensee for taximeter

19 Air-conditioned taxi to be fitted with approved air-conditioner

20 Air-conditioned taxi to display notice prohibiting smoking

21 Production of taxi and taximeter for inspection

22 No taximeter to be tampered with, etc., without permission of Registrar

23 Fitting, mark or seal to be branded again

24 Approved fares to be displayed

25 Register to be kept by holder of taxi licence

26 Unauthorised taxi drivers prohibited

27 Suitability of omnibus

28 Stopping place for taking up and setting down passengers

29 Register to be kept by licensee

30 Maximum number of passengers

31 Conductor to hold vocational licence

32 Licensing of excursion buses

33 Register to be kept

34 Prohibition on plying for hire on road, parking place or public stand

35 Prohibition on display of rates of hire

35A Conveyance of school children

36 Conveyance of adult workers, or hire out on contract

37 Non-compliance with Act or Rules

38 Vehicle to be air-conditioned.

39 Register to be kept

40 Prohibition on plying for hire on road, parking place or public stand

41 Prohibition on display of rates of hire

44 Permit for conveying adult workers

46 Non-compliance with Act, Rules or any conditions of a permit

48 Conductor to hold vocational licence

49 Display of markings

50 Register to be kept by licensee

51 Licensing of private hire bus

51A Conveyance of school children

52 Non-compliance with Act, Rules or any conditions of a licence

53 Register to be kept by licensee

54 Licensing of private bus

55 Prohibition on plying for hire on road, parking place or public stand

56 Suitability of vehicle

57 Lamps, brakes etc., to be approved

58 Maximum number of passengers

59 Plate or identification mark to be affixed on a trishaw

60 Register to be kept by holder of trishaw licence

61 Trishaw rider to hold vocational licence

62 Valid insurance policy in relation to use of school bus or private bus licence

64 Markings of passenger capacity

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276, Sections 111 and 140)

Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules

R 14

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[15th June 1976]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules.

Definitions

2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“Authority” means the Public Transport Council established under section 3 of the Public Transport Council Act [Cap. 259B];

“authorised officer” means an officer of the Land Transport Authority of Singapore authorised by the Registrar to discharge any of the functions and duties or to exercise any of the powers of the Registrar under these Rules;

[S 403/95 wef 01/09/1995]

“licence” means a licence granted under Part V of the Act to use a motor vehicle as a public service vehicle;

“licensee” means the holder of a licence;

“self-drive car” means a private hire car without a driver provided by the person who holds a licence in respect of such car.

(2) For the purposes of these Rules, licences granted under Part V of the Act shall be divided into the following classes:

(a)	an excursion bus licence; that is to say, a licence to use a vehicle as an excursion bus;
(b)	an omnibus licence; that is to say, a licence to use a vehicle as an omnibus;
(c)	a private bus licence; that is to say, a licence to use a vehicle as a private bus;
(d)	a school bus licence; that is to say, a licence to use a vehicle as a school bus;
(e)	a private hire bus licence; that is to say, a licence to use a vehicle as a private hire bus;
(f)	a private hire car licence; that is to say, a licence to use a vehicle as a private hire car;
(g)	a taxi licence; that is to say, a licence to use a vehicle as a taxi; and
(h)	a trishaw licence; that is to say, a licence to use a vehicle as a trishaw.

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