Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Authorisation of Special Types) (Amendment) Notification 2005

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 04 Mar 2005

No. S 109

Road Traffic Act

(chapter 276)

Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Authorisation of Special Types) (Amendment) Notification 2005

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(2) of the Road Traffic Act, the Land Transport Authority of Singapore hereby makes the following Notification:

Citation and commencement

1. This Notification may be cited as the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Authorisation of Special Types) (Amendment) Notification 2005 and shall come into operation on 4th March 2005.

Amendment of paragraph 7

2. Paragraph 7 of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Authorisation of Special Types) Notification (N 1) (referred to in this Notification as the principal Notification) is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub-paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:

“(1) The owner of every vehicle the use of which on roads is authorised by this Notification and the weight of which exceeds the laden weight provided in rule 99 of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Construction and Use) Rules (R 9) shall, before using any such vehicle on a road or bridge the maintenance of which the Authority is responsible, give 3 clear days’ notice to the Authority in the form and supply all particulars specified in the Schedule.

(1A) Every notice given under sub-paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by an indemnity in the form specified in the Schedule.”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after sub-paragraph (3), the following sub-paragraph:

“(3A) Upon notice being given under sub-paragraph (1), any person who uses or permits to be used the vehicle shall ensure that —

(a)

where the laden weight of the vehicle is 80 tonnes or more, the vehicle —

(i)

does not exceed a speed of —

(A)	12 km/hour if the axle load is 25 tonnes or more; and
(B)	20 km/hour if the axle load is less than 25 tonnes;

(ii)

does not travel on a bridge specified in the notice where he has reasonable grounds to believe that another vehicle whose laden weight is 80 tonnes or more is already travelling on that bridge; and

(iii)

travels on the centre of the carriageway of a bridge specified in the notice; or

(b)

where the laden weight of the vehicle is less than 80 tonnes but more than 46 tonnes, the vehicle —

(i)	does not advance next to; and
(ii)	allows a distance of at least one vehicle length when travelling behind,

another vehicle whose laden weight is less than 80 tonnes but more than 46 tonnes, unless the second-mentioned vehicle is stationary.”.

Deletion of paragraph 8

3. Paragraph 8 of the principal Notification is deleted.

Amendment of Schedule

4. The Schedule to the principal Notification is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “PART I” in the 2nd line;

(b)

by inserting, immediately below paragraph 2 under the heading “PARTICULARS”, the following paragraph:

“Condition:

Where the laden weight of the vehicle is 80 tonnes or more, police or auxiliary police escort shall be required.”; and

(c)

by deleting Part II.

Made this 2nd day of March 2005.

MICHAEL LIM CHOO SAN

Chairman,
Land Transport Authority of Singapore.

[LTA/KM/L017.007.000; AG/LEG/SL/276/2002/8 Vol. 1]

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