No. S 189
Road Traffic Act
(Chapter 276)
Road Traffic (Restricted Zone and Area Licences) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1998
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 140(1) of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Communications hereby makes the following Rules:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Restricted Zone and Area Licences) (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1998.
Amendment of rule 2
2.  Rule 2 of the Road Traffic (Restricted Zone and Area Licences) Rules (R 12) is amended by deleting the definition of “business service passenger vehicle” and substituting the following definition:
“ “business service passenger vehicle” means a motor car registered in the name of —
(a)a statutory board, company, firm, society, association or club and is used for the owner’s business; or
(b)an individual and is used for the purpose of any trade, business, profession or vocation,
but does not include a private hire car or a motor car used —
(i)for the carriage of goods other than samples;
(ii)for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward; or
(iii)for instructional purposes for reward unless prior approval of the Registrar has been obtained;”.
Amendment of rule 5
3.  Rule 5 of the Road Traffic (Restricted Zone and Area Licences) Rules is amended —
(a)by deleting sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:
(a)a business service passenger vehicle registered using certificate of entitlement issued before 1st April 1998 or a private motor car transferred to a statutory board, company, firm, society, association or club before 1st April 1998 shall be $6 per day or $120 per month;”; and
(b)by deleting sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (3) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:
(i)for a business service passenger vehicle registered using a certificate of entitlement issued before 1st April 1998 or a private motor car transferred to a statutory board, company, firm, society, association or club before 1st April 1998, $4 per day or $80 per month;”.
[G.N. Nos. S 224/97; S 24/98]
Made this 31st day of March 1998.
TEO MING KIAN
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry for Communications,
Singapore.
[MINCOM LT.396.3.01.2.8; AG/LEG/SL/276/97/6 Vol. 1]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 141 of the Road Traffic Act).