Road Traffic (Dealing in Power-Assisted Bicycles) (Amendment) Rules 2020

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 02 Apr 2020

No. S 246

Road Traffic Act

(CHAPTER 276)

Road Traffic
(Dealing in Power-Assisted Bicycles)
(Amendment) Rules 2020

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 34(1) of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Transport makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Road Traffic (Dealing in Power‑Assisted Bicycles) (Amendment) Rules 2020 and come into operation on 3 April 2020.

New rule 6

2. The Road Traffic (Dealing in Power‑Assisted Bicycles) Rules 2018 (G.N. No. S 244/2018) are amended by inserting, immediately after rule 5, the following rule:

“Penalties

6.—(1) A person who contravenes rule 3(1) or (2) or 5 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —

(a)

where the person is an individual —

(i)	to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both; but
(ii)	where the individual is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 24 months or to both; and

(b)

in any other case —

(i)	to a fine not exceeding $20,000; but
(ii)	where the person is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $40,000.

(2) A person who contravenes rule 4(1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —

(a)

where the person is an individual —

(i)	to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both; but
(ii)	where the individual is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both; and

(b)

in any other case —

(i)	to a fine not exceeding $10,000; but
(ii)	where the person is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $20,000.

(3) In these Rules, “repeat offender”, in relation to any offence under these Rules, means a person who —

(a)	is convicted, or found guilty, of such an offence (called the current offence); and
(b)	has been convicted or found guilty of the same offence, on at least one other earlier occasion within the period of 5 years immediately before the date on which the person is convicted or found guilty of the current offence.”.

Amendment of Schedule

3. The Schedule to the Road Traffic (Dealing in Power‑Assisted Bicycles) Rules 2018 is amended by deleting the warning notice and substituting the following warning notice:

“

”.

[G.N. No. S 871/2019]

Made on 31 March 2020.

LOH NGAI SENG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[MOT.LT.443.5.051.0.4; AG/LEGIS/SL/276/2015/22 Vol. 2]

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

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