Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) (Exemption) (Amendment) Order 2021

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Dec 2021

No. S 1064

Road Traffic Act

(CHAPTER 276)

Road Traffic
(Electronic Road Pricing System)
(Exemption) (Amendment) Order 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 142 of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Transport makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order is the Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) (Exemption) (Amendment) Order 2021 and comes into operation on 3 January 2022.

Amendment of paragraph 2

2. Paragraph 2 of the Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) (Exemption) Order (O 13) is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub‑paragraph (a) and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:

“(a)	authorised ambulances;”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after sub‑paragraph (b), the following sub‑paragraph:

“(ba)

authorised medical transport vehicles;”; and

(c)

by renumbering the paragraph as sub‑paragraph (1) of that paragraph, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub‑paragraph:

“(2) In this paragraph —

“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 or medical transport vehicle, means —

(a)	being specified in a licence (other than a revoked licence) under the Healthcare Services Act 2020 authorising the use of the ambulance or medical transport vehicle (as the case may be) 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;

“medical transport vehicle” means a motor vehicle that is equipped to provide non‑emergency patient transport services;

“non‑emergency patient transport services” means transport services for fee or reward that relate solely to the provision of transport on roads of individuals —

(a)	whose medical needs have been assessed as requiring patient transport and not being time‑critical or acute; and
(b)	who may require basic care and observation or clinical care and monitoring during transport.”.

[G.N. No. S 131/2017]

Made on 28 December 2021.

LOH NGAI SENG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[MOT.LT.27.13.03.0.40; AG/LEGIS/SL/276/2015/15 Vol. 13]

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