Road Traffic (Bicycles) (Amendment) Rules 2004

No. S 773

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276)

Road Traffic (Bicycles) (Amendment) Rules 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 48 and 140 of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Bicycles) (Amendment) Rules 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2005.

Amendment of rule 2

2. Rule 2 of the Road Traffic (Bicycles) Rules (R 3) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately before the definition of “hours of darkness”, the following definition:

“ “bicycle” means a pedal bicycle, a pedal tricycle, a trishaw or a power-assisted bicycle;”; and

(b)

by deleting the definition of “bicycle” and substituting the following definition:

“ “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.”.

Deletion and substitution of rule 4

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

“Restriction on number of persons carried

4.—(1) No bicycle shall be used to carry at one time more persons than the number for which it is designed.

(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), but subject to paragraph (4), no person shall be carried as a pillion passenger on a bicycle unless the bicycle is designed such as to be provided with a seat for a pillion passenger.

(3) A child below the age of 12 years may be carried on a properly constructed seat or carrier affixed to a pedal bicycle.

(4) No person below the age of 16 years shall be carried as a pillion passenger on a power-assisted bicycle.”.

Amendment of rule 7

4. Rule 7 of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “pedal tricycle or trishaw” in paragraph (1) and substituting the word “bicycle”; and
(b)	by deleting the word “pedal” wherever it appears in paragraph (2).

Amendment of rule 11

5. Rule 11 (1) of the principal Rules is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “pedal bicycle”, the words “or power-assisted bicycle”.

New rule 13

6. The principal Rules are amended by inserting, immediately after rule 12, the following rule:

“Requirements for use of power-assisted bicycle

13.—(1) No person shall use a power-assisted bicycle on a road unless the power-assisted bicycle —

(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.

(2) No person below the age of 16 years shall ride a power-assisted bicycle on a road.

(3) Every person who rides a power-assisted bicycle on a road or who is carried as a pillion passenger on a power-assisted bicycle on a road shall wear securely on his head a suitable protective bicycle helmet.”.

Made this 23rd day of December 2004.

TAN GUONG CHING

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[TP 5.11.39; AG/LEG/SL/276/2002/5 Vol. 1]

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

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