Public Transport Council (Ticket Payment Service Licence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 31 Jul 2024

No. S 625

Public Transport Council Act 1987

Public Transport Council
(Ticket Payment Service Licence)
(Amendment) Regulations 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 73 of the Public Transport Council Act 1987, the Public Transport Council, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Public Transport Council (Ticket Payment Service Licence) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 1 August 2024.

Replacement of regulation 5

2. In the Public Transport Council (Ticket Payment Service Licence) Regulations 2006 (G.N. No. S 397/2006), replace regulation 5 with —

“Periodic fee

5.—(1) A licensee must pay to the Council, within the period specified by the Council, a periodic fee of $11,800 per annum for providing or causing to be provided each of the following services:

(a)	a service for the clearing of any ticket transaction;
(b)	a service for the sale, topping‑up, replacement or refund, or the management of the use, of a mode of payment for tickets.

(2) If a licensee, who has paid the periodic fee mentioned in paragraph (1) for providing any ticket payment service involving one of the services mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) for a year (called the payment period), provides or causes to be provided an additional service mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) during the payment period, the additional periodic fee to be paid by the licensee under paragraph (1) for the additional service for that payment period is to be pro‑rated according to the following formula, rounded to the nearest $100:

where A is the number of months remaining in the payment period based on the date of provision of the additional service.

(3) For any part of the remaining period of validity of a ticket payment service licence granted to a licensee that is less than a year, the periodic fee mentioned in paragraph (1) for the licensee is —

(a)	pro‑rated according to the number of months in that part of the period of validity; and
(b)	rounded to the nearest $100.”.

New regulation 7

3. In the Public Transport Council (Ticket Payment Service Licence) Regulations 2006, after regulation 6, insert —

“Reduction, waiver or reduction of fees

7. The Council may, in any particular case —

(a)	refund, in whole or part, any fee mentioned in these Regulations that has been paid; or
(b)	waive or reduce, in whole or part, any fee mentioned in these Regulations.”.

[G.N Nos. S 427/2010; S 353/2016; S 481/2018; S 425/2022; S 325/2023]

Made on 29 July 2024.

JANET ANG

Chairperson,
Public Transport Council,
Singapore.

[PTC 8401; AG/LEGIS/SL/259B/2020/13]

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