Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks and Compensation) (Exemption of Power-Assisted Bicycles) Notification 2004

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 24 Dec 2004

No. S 770

Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks and Compensation) Act

(Chapter 189)

Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks and Compensation) (Exemption of Power-assisted Bicycles) Notification 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 23 of the Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks and Compensation) Act, the Minister for Transport hereby makes the following Notification:

Citation and commencement

1. This Notification may be cited as the Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks and Compensation) (Exemption of Power-Assisted Bicycles) Notification 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2005.

Definition

2. In this Notification, “power-assisted bicycle” means a bicycle that is equipped with an electric motor and that may be propelled by muscular power or by the electric motor with which it is equipped, or by both.

Exemption

3. Section 3 of the Act shall not apply in relation to the use of any power-assisted bicycle that —

(a)	complies with the requirements specified in the Schedule to the Road Traffic (Power-Assisted Bicycles — Approval) Rules 2004 (G.N. No. S 768/2004); and
(b)	has been approved and sealed in accordance with those Rules.

Made this 23rd day of December 2004.

PETER ONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[LTA/EK/43.16.04; AG/LEG/SL/189/2003/1 Vol. 1]

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