Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Speed Limiters) (Amendment) Rules 2021

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Dec 2021

No. S 1057

Road Traffic Act

(CHAPTER 276)

Road Traffic
(Motor Vehicles, Speed Limiters)
(Amendment) 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, Speed Limiters) (Amendment) Rules 2021 and come into operation on 3 January 2022.

Amendment of rule 2

2. Rule 2 of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Speed Limiters) Rules (R 39) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately before the definition of “approved speed limiter”, the following definition:

“ “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;”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “approved speed limiter”, the following definition:

“ “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;”.

Amendment of rule 3

3. Rule 3(2) of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Speed Limiters) Rules is amended by deleting the word “ambulance,” in sub‑paragraph (d) and substituting the words “authorised ambulance, or any”.

Made on 29 December 2021.

CHAN HENG LOON ALAN

Chairman,
Land Transport Authority of Singapore.

[L18.029.002/AK/MVSL.RARF.21.01; AG/LEGIS/SL/276/2015/87 Vol. 1]

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

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