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No. S 505

Motor Vehicles
(Third-Party Risks and Compensation) Act

(CHAPTER 189)

Motor Vehicles
(Third-Party Risks and Compensation)
(Amendment) Rules 2014

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(1) of the Motor Vehicles (Third‑Party Risks and Compensation) Act, the Minister for Law hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Third‑Party Risks and Compensation) (Amendment) Rules 2014 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2014.

Deletion of rule 15

2. Rule 15 of the Motor Vehicles (Third‑Party Risks and Compensation) Rules (R 1) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is deleted.

Deletion of rule 16

3. Rule 16 of the principal Rules is deleted.

Deletion and substitution of rule 18

4. Rule 18 of the principal Rules is deleted and the following rule substituted therefor:

“Fees chargeable by Public Trustee

18. The Public Trustee shall be entitled to charge, upon the receipt of any of the following applications, the corresponding fee:

(a)	an application to the Public Trustee for his approval of the adequacy of a payment under section 6(3)(a)(i) of the Act in relation to a settlement agreement referred to in section 6(1) of the Act which is made on or after 1st August 2014

$300

(b)

an application made by a public officer or an advocate and solicitor for an agreement on costs between him and the Public Trustee under section 18(3)(a) of the Act in relation to a settlement agreement referred to in section 6(1) of the Act, or a judgment of the court referred to in section 9(1) of the Act, which is made on or after 1st August 2014

$225.

”.

Amendment of Schedule

5. The Schedule to the principal Rules is amended by deleting Form G.

Savings and transitional provision

6. Notwithstanding rule 4, rule 18 of the principal Rules in force immediately before 1st August 2014 shall continue to apply to every payment to the Public Trustee under section 6(1) or 9(1) of the Act in force immediately before 1st August 2014 if such payment was made in relation to a settlement agreement or a judgment which is made before 1st August 2014.

[G.N. Nos. S 591/2004; S 217/2005]

Made this 29th day of July 2014.

BEH SWAN GIN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 06/001/002 Vol. 4; AG/LLRD/SL/189/2010/4 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 24(2) of the Motor Vehicles (Third‑Party Risks and Compensation) Act).