Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2005

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Aug 2005

No. S 566

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276)

Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2005

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34D and 140(1) 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 (Electronic Road Pricing System) (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2005 and shall come into operation on 31st August 2005.

Amendment of rule 8

2. Rule 8 of the Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules (R 38) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “paragraphs (2) and (4)” in paragraph (1) and substituting the words “paragraphs (2), (2A), (2B) and (4)”;

(b)

by deleting paragraphs (2) and (2A) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(2) Where a person, who is registered with a collecting agent in such manner as the collecting agent may specify for the purposes of payment of outstanding road user charges and administrative charges, during the restricted hours, rides, drives or moves a motor vehicle into a specified entry point on a specified road in any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (1)(f), (g) or (h), he may pay to the collecting agent —

(a)	the road user charge incurred by him; and
(b)	an administrative charge of $3 payable to the Registrar,

on or before the date of payment specified by the collecting agent.

(2A) Where the Registrar has reason to believe that a person has committed an offence under paragraph (1)(f), (g) or (h) and —

(a)	the person is not registered with a collecting agent for the purposes of payment of outstanding road user charges and administrative charges; or
(b)	the person is registered with a collecting agent for the purposes of payment of outstanding road user charges and administrative charges but fails to pay the charges specified in paragraph (2) on or before the date of payment specified by the collecting agent,

the Registrar may by notice in writing require the person to pay, within such time and in such manner as may be specified in the notice, the road user charge incurred by him and —

(i)	in a case where payment is made directly to the Authority or at any post office (whether by cheque, cash or NETS), an administrative charge of $10; or
(ii)	in a case where payment is made in any other manner specified in the notice, an administrative charge of $8.

(2B) If a person makes payment of the road user charge and administrative charge in accordance with paragraph (2) or (2A), he shall not be guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(f), (g) or (h), as the case may be.

(2C) The Registrar may, in his discretion, waive in whole or in part the administrative charge referred to in paragraphs (2) and (2A).”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (4), the following paragraph:

“(5) In this rule, “collecting agent” means a person authorised by the Registrar for the purposes of collecting outstanding road user charges and administrative charges on behalf of the Registrar.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 569/2002; S 54/2003; S 228/2003; S 380/2003; S423/2003; S 505/2003; S 47/2004; S 250/2004; S 460/2004; S 666/2004; S 715/2004; S719/2004; S 787/2004; S 65/2005; S 283/2005; S 522/2005]

Made this 26th day of August 2005.

CHOI SHING KWOK

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[LTA/EK/ERP-SMS; AG/LEG/SL/276/2005/13 Vol. 1]

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

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