No. S 105
Road Traffic Act
(Chapter 276)
Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Rules 2008
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) Rules 2008 and shall come into operation on 1st March 2008.
Amendment of First Schedule
2.  Part II of the First Schedule to the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5) is amended —
(a)by inserting, at the end of 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 words “BUT BEFORE 1ST MARCH 2008”;
(b)by inserting, immediately after item (7) 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 BUT BEFORE 1ST MARCH 2008”, the following heading and items:
ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION FEE PAYABLE ON THE REGISTRATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES (OTHER THAN TAXIS) USING CERTIFICATES OF ENTITLEMENT ISSUED ON OR AFTER 1ST MARCH 2008
Description of vehicle
 
Fee payable
(1) Motor vehicle, not being a vehicle falling within any of the classes of vehicles set out in paragraphs (2) and (6), registered for the purpose of —
 
 
(a) conveying passengers
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(b) conveying goods and passengers
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(2) Motor vehicle registered for the purpose of conveying either passengers or both passengers and goods and which falls under the category of —
 
 
(a) new business service passenger vehicle
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(b) new private hire car
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(c) new private motor car
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(d) new off-peak car
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(e) new station wagon
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(f) secondhand business service passenger vehicle
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(g) secondhand private motor car
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(h) secondhand off-peak car
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(i) secondhand station wagon
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(j) new or secondhand goods-cum-passengers vehicle
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(k) secondhand private hire car
 
Fee equal to 100% of the value of the vehicle
(3) Motor vehicle which is imported or which the Registrar is satisfied is locally assembled and registered for the purpose of conveying goods only
 
Fee equal to 5% of the value of the vehicle
(4) Omnibus which is imported or which the Registrar is satisfied is locally assembled and registered as a public service vehicle
 
Fee equal to 5% of the value of the vehicle
(5) Motor cycle or motor scooter
 
Fee equal to 15% of the value of the vehicle
(6) Bus
 
Fee equal to 5% of the value of the vehicle
(7) Engineering plant
 
Nil.”;
(c)by inserting, immediately after the words “28th February 2004” in items (9) and (10) under the heading “ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION FEE FOR TAXIS”, the words “but before 1st March 2008”; and
(d)by inserting, immediately after item (10) under the heading “ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION FEE FOR TAXIS”, the following items:
(11) New taxi registered using a certificate of entitlement issued on or after 1st March 2008
 
100% of the value of the vehicle
(12) Taxi which on or after 1st March 2008 replaces another taxi (irrespective of the age of the taxi being replaced)
 
100% of the value of the vehicle.
”.
[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; S 476/2006; S 505/2006; S 38/2007; S 116/2007; S 202/2007; S 365/2007; S 467/2007; S 608/2007; S 610/2007; S 739/2007]

Made this 27th day of February 2008.

CHOI SHING KWOK
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.
[LTA/JG/IE/RT(MVRL)/1/08; AG/LEG/SL/276/2005/3 Vol. 3]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 141(1) of the Road Traffic Act).