Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2006

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 28 Aug 2006

No. S 505

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276)

Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2006

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

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2006 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st May 2005.

Amendment of rule 5

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

(a)

by deleting sub-paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (2)(d) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:

“(i)	a diplomatic agent;
(ii)	a consular officer;
(iii)	the designated spouse or only lawful spouse of a diplomatic agent or consular officer;
(iv)	a member of the administrative and technical staff of a diplomatic mission or consular post;
(v)	a representative, an officer or an employee of such international organisation as may be approved by an authorised officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
(vi)	a member of a visiting military force who is approved by an authorised officer of the Ministry of Defence and who complies with such conditions for approval as the authorised officer may impose.”; and

(b)

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

“(3) In this rule —

“consular officer” means a person entrusted in that capacity with the exercise of consular functions, and includes the head of a consular post;

“designated spouse”, in relation to a diplomatic agent or consular officer with more than one lawful spouse, means the lawful spouse of the diplomatic agent or consular officer whom the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recognises for the purposes of paragraph (2);

“diplomatic agent” means —

(a)	the head of a diplomatic mission; or
(b)	a member of the staff of a diplomatic mission having diplomatic rank;

“member of the administrative and technical staff”, in relation to a diplomatic mission or consular post, means a member of the staff of the diplomatic mission or consular post who is employed in the administrative or technical service of the diplomatic mission or consular post.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 812/2004; S 813/2004; S 226/2005; S 248/2005; S398/2005; S 540/2005; S 90/2006; S 125/2006; S 476/2006]

Made this 25th day of August 2006.

CHOI SHING KWOK

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[LTA/KM/L017.00; AG/LEG/SL/276/2005/3 Vol. 2]

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

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