Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Rules 2000

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 20 May 2000

No. S 226

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276)

Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Rules 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34 and 140 of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into operation on 2nd May 2000.

New rule 13A

2. The Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) are amended by inserting, immediately after rule 13, the following rule:

“Application for cancellation of assigned index mark

13A.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), a person in whose name a motor vehicle is to be registered or any dealer in motor vehicles who has been duly authorised by such person may, before the registration of the motor vehicle, apply to the Registrar for the cancellation of the index mark which has been assigned to that motor vehicle under rule 13 in order that he may apply for a particular index mark in respect of that motor vehicle under rule 14.

(2) An application under paragraph (1) shall be —

(a)	made in such form and within such time as may be required by the Registrar; and
(b)	accompanied by a fee of $300.

(3) The Registrar may require any person making an application under this rule to submit such other information or comply with such other conditions as the Registrar may specify.

(4) This rule shall apply only in respect of motor vehicles which have not been previously registered under these Rules.”.

Amendment of rule 14

3. Rule 14 of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “3 months” in paragraph (7) and substituting the words “6 months”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “, except that the total period of extensions granted to any successful applicant shall not exceed 6 months” in paragraph (8).

Amendment of rule 39

4. Rule 39 (1) of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (a); and

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of sub-paragraph (b) and substituting a semi-colon and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub-paragraphs:

“(c)

a vehicle which has at any time been issued with an excursion bus licence, a school bus licence, a private hire bus licence or a private bus licence under the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules (R 14) and which has been used for more than 20 years;

(d)

a vehicle which has at any time been issued with an omnibus licence under the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules and which has been used for more than 15 years;

(e)

a vehicle which has at any time been issued with a taxi licence under the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules and which has been used for more than 7 years;

(f)

a vehicle which has been —

(i)	registered using a certificate of entitlement issued before 1st April 1998;
(ii)	issued with a private hire car licence under the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules (R 14); and
(iii)	used for more than 7 years; or

(g)

a vehicle which has been —

(i)	registered using a certificate of entitlement issued on or after 1st April 1998;
(ii)	issued with a private hire car licence under the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules; and
(iii)	used for more than 10 years.”.

[G.N. No. S 535/99]

Made this 29th day of April 2000.

CHAN HENG LOON ALAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology,
Singapore.

[LTA/LG/43.16.04; AG/LEG/SL/276/97/13 Vol. 2]

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

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