No. S 278
Road Traffic Act
(Chapter 276)
Road Traffic (Keeping of De-registered Vehicles in Designated Areas and Approved Areas) (Exemption) (Amendment) Order 2009
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 142 of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Transport hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1.  This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Keeping of De-registered Vehicles in Designated Areas and Approved Areas) (Exemption) (Amendment) Order 2009 and shall come into operation on 22nd June 2009.
Amendment of paragraph 2
2.  Paragraph 2 of the Road Traffic (Keeping of De-registered Vehicles in Designated Areas and Approved Areas) (Exemption) Order (O 19) (referred to in this Order as the principal Order) is amended by inserting, immediately before the definition of “approved area”, the following definition:
“ “alternative area” means an area permitted by the Registrar for the keeping of de-registered vehicles under rule 34A(3A) of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5);”.
Amendment of paragraph 3
3.  Paragraph 3 of the principal Order is amended by deleting sub-paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:
“(1)  Subject to such conditions as the Registrar may impose, sections 10(1) and 29(1) of the Act shall not apply to any person who keeps a de-registered vehicle in a designated area or an alternative area, or who is in possession of such a vehicle, with the approval of the Registrar under rule 34A of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5) to keep the vehicle in the designated area or alternative area.”.
Amendment of paragraph 4
4.  Paragraph 4 of the principal Order is amended —
(a)by deleting sub-paragraph (2) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:
“(2)  Unless the Registrar permits otherwise, the registered owner, or the person in possession, of a de-registered vehicle kept in a designated area or an alternative area with the approval of the Registrar under rule 34A of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules shall, at or within the following times, produce proof to the satisfaction of the Registrar that the vehicle has been exported, scrapped or permanently removed from all roads in Singapore:
(a)immediately at the end of the 6-month period referred to in paragraph (2) of that rule or, if any extension or extensions have been granted by the Registrar under paragraph (3B) or (3D) of that rule, as the case may be, immediately at the end of the period of the last of such extensions;
(b)where the vehicle has been removed from the designated area or alternative area pursuant to paragraph (4) of that rule and will not be moved into another designated area or alternative area pursuant to paragraph (5) of that rule, within 7 days from the date of the removal; or
(c)where the Registrar notifies him that the approval granted under that rule has been revoked, within 3 days from the date of the notification or such longer period as the Registrar may in his discretion allow.”; and
(b)by deleting the words “exported or scrapped” in the penultimate and last lines of sub-paragraph (3) and substituting the words “exported, scrapped or permanently removed from all roads in Singapore”.
[G.N. No. S 39/2007]

Made this 17th day of June 2009.

CHOI SHING KWOK
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.
[LTA/RY/MR/IE/RT(DAAA-EXT)OR-09; AG/LEG/SL/276/2005/20 Vol. 3]
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