Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Lighting) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Dec 2021

No. S 1051

Road Traffic Act

(CHAPTER 276)

Road Traffic
(Motor Vehicles, Lighting)
(Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 6 of the Road Traffic Act, the Land Transport Authority of Singapore makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Lighting) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 and come into operation on 3 January 2022.

Amendment of rule 11

2. Rule 11 of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Lighting) Rules (R 10) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “a motor vehicle used for fire brigade, ambulance” in paragraph (1) and substituting the words “an authorised ambulance or a motor vehicle used for fire brigade”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “when the vehicle is being used” in paragraph (4), the words “for a medical emergency or”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (4), the following paragraph:

“(5) In this rule —

“ambulance” means a motor vehicle that is specifically equipped for —

(a)	the transport on roads of; and
(b)	the provision, during such transport, of out‑of‑hospital clinical care to,

sick or injured individuals who require emergency medical treatment;

“authorised”, for an ambulance, means —

(a)	being specified in a licence (other than a revoked licence) under the Healthcare Services Act 2020 authorising the use of the ambulance to provide a licensable healthcare service specified in that licence; or
(b)	being owned by the Government and used for the purposes of the Singapore Armed Forces or the Singapore Civil Defence Force.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 422/97; S 292/2003; S 449/2005; S 656/2009; S 466/2017; S 142/2021]

Made on 29 December 2021.

CHAN HENG LOON ALAN

Chairman,
Land Transport Authority of Singapore.

[L18.029.002/AK/MVL.RARF.21.01; AG/LEGIS/SL/2015/63 Vol. 1]

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

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