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No. S 68

Active Mobility Act 2017

(ACT 3 OF 2017)

Active Mobility
(Dealing in Personal Mobility Devices)
(Amendment) Regulations 2019

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 67(1) of the Active Mobility Act 2017, the Land Transport Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Active Mobility (Dealing in Personal Mobility Devices) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and come into operation on 1 February 2019.

Amendment of regulation 1

2. Regulation 1 of the Active Mobility (Dealing in Personal Mobility Devices) Regulations 2018 (G.N. No. S 243/2018) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “Personal Mobility Devices”, the words “and Mobility Vehicles”.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 2

3. Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“mobility vehicle” means —

(a)	a mobility scooter; or
(b)	a motorised wheelchair;

“premises” or “place” means any premises or place where a person is, in the course of business, selling, or offering or exposing for sale, by retail, any personal mobility device or mobility vehicle.”.

Amendment of regulation 3

4. Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “is one”, the words “for any personal mobility device and one for any mobility vehicle being sold, or offered or exposed for sale, by retail, on the premises or place”.

Amendment of regulation 4

5. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “the Schedule” in paragraph (1)(a) and substituting the words “the First Schedule”;

(b)

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

“(1A) For the purposes of section 31 of the Act, a person who is, in the course of business, selling, or offering or exposing for sale, by retail, any mobility vehicle on any premises or place must ensure that the warning notice mentioned in that section —

(a)	is in the form, and contains the text, as specified in the Second Schedule;
(b)	is not smaller than 29.7 cm × 42 cm; and
(c)	is printed indelibly in colour with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “paragraph (1)” in paragraph (2), the words “or (1A)”.

Amendment of regulation 5

6. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the words “personal mobility device” in paragraph (1), the words “or mobility vehicle”; and
(b)	by inserting, immediately after the words “personal mobility device” in the definitions of “point of payment” and “point of sale” in paragraph (3), the words “or mobility vehicle”.

Renaming of Schedule and new Second Schedule

7. The principal Regulations are amended by renaming the existing Schedule as the First Schedule, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following Schedule:

“SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulation 4(1A)(a)

”.

Made on 31 January 2019.

RICHARD LIM CHERNG YIH

Deputy Chairman,
Land Transport Authority of Singapore.

[LTA/L18.056.002/DVT/DT/AMAP1; AG/LEGIS/SL/2C/2015/3 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 67(4) of the Active Mobility Act 2017).