Parking Places (Digital Payment — Parking Charges) Rules 2022

No. S 76

Parking Places Act 1974

Parking Places
(Digital Payment — Parking Charges)
Rules 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22(1) of the Parking Places Act 1974, the Land Transport Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Parking Places (Digital Payment — Parking Charges) Rules 2022 and come into operation on 7 February 2022.

Definitions

2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“coupon parking place” has the meaning given by the Parking Places (Coupon Parking) Rules (R 3);

“digital parking system application” or “DP app” means a digital application software approved by the Superintendent for use as a method of payment of the parking charge for parking in any of the following parking places:

(a)	a coupon parking place;
(b)	a Parking@HDB parking place;

“identification mark” means the identification mark required by rule 17 of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5) to be carried by a motor vehicle;

“in-vehicle unit” has the meaning given by the Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2015 (G.N. No. S 226/2015);

“parking charge” means the parking charge fixed under section 9(1) of the Act;

“parking session”, for a vehicle, means, subject to paragraph (2), the period of time the vehicle is within a parking place;

“Parking@HDB parking place” means a parking place that —

(a)	is a parking place maintained or operated by the Housing and Development Board;
(b)	is designated as such by the Superintendent, by placing or erecting at or near the parking place a sign bearing that name; and
(c)	is not a coupon parking place;

“vehicle” means a motor car, motor cycle or lorry.

(2) Where a vehicle is parked within a coupon parking place, then for the purposes of these Rules, the parking session of the vehicle —

(a)	begins upon the entry of the vehicle into a parking lot; and
(b)	ends upon the vehicle being removed from the parking lot.

DP app usable to pay parking charges at certain parking places

3. A person who parks a vehicle for a parking session in any of the following parking places during any time during which parking charges are payable may use a DP app, in accordance with rule 4 or 5 (as is applicable), to pay the parking charges for the parking session, in lieu of any method described in the Parking Places (Coupon Parking) Rules and the Parking Places Rules (R 2), respectively:

(a)	a coupon parking place;
(b)	a Parking@HDB parking place.

Paying parking charges for coupon parking places

4.—(1) A person who intends to pay parking charges for a parking session from parking a vehicle in a coupon parking place may, in lieu of the method described in the Parking Places (Coupon Parking) Rules, pay those parking charges —

(a)

first, by entering the following information using the DP app:

(i)	the identification mark of the vehicle;
(ii)	the location of the coupon parking place;
(iii)	the class of vehicle;
(iv)	the duration of the parking session; and

(b)

then, by confirming the payment for the parking session of the vehicle using the DP app immediately after the parking session begins, and in every case, in advance of the end of that parking session.

(2) A person may pay for an extension of the duration of a parking session using the DP app by following the same steps mentioned in paragraph (1) as if the extension were a new parking session.

(3) A person who has paid the parking charges for a parking session of a vehicle in accordance with this rule may end the parking session of the vehicle prematurely, and if the person also indicates the premature ending using the DP app, the Superintendent may refund to the person a part of the paid parking charge that is proportionate to the time the vehicle was removed before the expiry of the parking session for which payment was made.

Paying parking charges for Parking@HDB parking places

5.—(1) A person who intends to pay parking charges for a parking session from parking a vehicle in a Parking@HDB parking place may, in lieu of the method described in the Parking Places Rules, pay those parking charges by —

(a)	the method in paragraph (2) or (4) if the person is registered on the DP app as the primary driver of the vehicle;
(b)	the method in paragraph (3) or (4) if the person is registered on the DP app as a secondary driver of the vehicle; or
(c)	the method in paragraph (4) in any case.

(2) Where a person who intends to pay a parking charge for a parking session from parking a vehicle in a Parking@HDB parking place is registered on the DP app as the primary driver of the vehicle, the person may pay those parking charges —

(a)	first, by authorising the parking charge to be paid in whole by electronic funds transfer using the person’s credit card or debit card or any other payment facility available for use on the DP app; and
(b)	then, by ending the parking session at the Parking@HDB parking place.

(3) Where a person who intends to pay a parking charge for a parking session from parking a vehicle in a Parking@HDB parking place is registered on the DP app as a secondary driver of the vehicle, the person may pay those parking charges —

(a)	first, by authorising the parking charge to be paid in whole by electronic funds transfer using the person’s credit card or debit card or any other payment facility available for use on the DP app;
(b)	by indicating on the DP app that he or she is the driver, before parking the vehicle in the Parking@HDB parking place; and
(c)	then, by ending the parking session at the Parking@HDB parking place.

(4) A person who intends to pay a parking charge for a parking session from parking a vehicle in a Parking@HDB parking place may pay those parking charges —

(a)	by inserting a cashcard into the in‑vehicle unit before the vehicle leaves the Parking@HDB parking place; and
(b)	then, by allowing the parking charge to be paid in whole by electronic funds transfer deducted from the cashcard when the vehicle leaves the Parking@HDB parking place.

Revocation

6. The Parking Places (Digital Payment — Parking Charges) Rules 2017 (G.N. No. S 553/2017) are revoked.

Made on 4 February 2022.

CHAN HENG LOON ALAN

Chairperson,
Land Transport Authority of Singapore.

[LTA/L18.033.002/TCY/DPPC.22.01; AG/LEGIS/SL/214/2015/11 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 22(3) of the Parking Places Act 1974).

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