Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Rules 1999

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 01 Feb 1999

No. S 42

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276)

Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Rules 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34 and 140 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 (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) Rules 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st February 1999.

Amendment of rule 26

2. Rule 26 of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5) is amended —

(a)

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

“(b)	a written notification in such form as the Registrar may require setting out such particulars as may be specified in the form.”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (1), the following paragraph:

“(1A) The Registrar may require the person who has sold a registered vehicle and the person who has purchased the vehicle to furnish such additional information relating to the vehicle or transaction as the Registrar may specify.”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (2), the following paragraphs:

“(2A) Where —

(a)	the owner of a registered vehicle sells the vehicle to a firm or company, which is a licensed dealer in secondhand motor vehicles under the Secondhand Dealers Act (Cap.288); and
(b)	the firm or company has bought the registered vehicle for the purpose of re-sale,

the Registrar may, upon —

(i)	the application made by the firm or company in such form or manner as the Registrar may require; and
(ii)	the payment of a fee of $10,

temporarily transfer the registration of the vehicle to the name of such firm or company for a period not exceeding 3 months, subject to such conditions as the Registrar may think fit to impose.

(2B) At the expiration of the 3 month period referred to in paragraph (2A), the Registrar may, upon —

(a)	an application made by the firm or company in such form or manner as the Registrar may require; and
(b)	the payment of a fee of $30,

extend the period of registration of the vehicle in the name of the firm or company for a further period not exceeding 3 months.

(2C) Upon the expiration of the 3 month period referred to in paragraph (2B), the firm or company, if it has not by then sold the vehicle to another person shall transfer the registration of the vehicle to its name and pay —

(a)	the prescribed fee in Part IV of the First Schedule;
(b)	the additional transfer fee referred to in rule 31(1); and
(c)	any fee payable in respect of the vehicle under rule 31(4).”.

New rule 26A

3. The Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules are amended by inserting, immediately after rule 26, the following rule:

“Temporary transfer of vehicle to hire purchase company or insurance company, etc.

26A.—(1) Where —

(a)	a firm or company has repossessed a registered vehicle under the Hire-Purchase Act (Cap.125) for the purpose of selling the vehicle or letting it to a hirer under that Act; or
(b)	an insurer registered under the Insurance Act (Cap.142) which has taken over a registered vehicle from an insured under a policy of insurance for the purpose of resale,

the Registrar may, upon —

(i)	the application made by the firm or company in such form or manner as the Registrar may require; and
(ii)	the payment of a fee of $10,

temporarily transfer the registration of the vehicle to the name of such firm or company for a period not exceeding 3 months, subject to such conditions as the Registrar may think fit to impose.

(2) At the expiration of the 3 month period referred to in paragraph (1), the Registrar may, upon —

(a)	an application made by the firm or company in such form or manner as the Registrar may require; and
(b)	the payment of a fee of $30,

extend the period of registration of the vehicle in the name of the firm or company for a further period not exceeding 3 months.

(3) Upon the expiration of the 3 month period referred to in paragraph (2), the firm or company, if it has not by then transferred the registration of the vehicle to another person, shall transfer the registration of the vehicle to its own name and pay —

(a)	the prescribed fee in Part IV of the First Schedule;
(b)	the additional transfer fee referred to in rule 31(1); and
(c)	any fee payable in respect of the vehicle under rule 31(4).”.

[G.N. Nos. S292/96; S39/97; S358/97; S125/98; S188/98; S388/98; S517/98; S537/98]

Made this 29th day of January 1999.

TEO MING KIAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Communications,
Singapore.

[MINCOM.271.6.01.0.12; AG/LEG/SL/276/97/13 Vol.2]

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

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