Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) (Exemption) Order

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as at 24 Apr 2024

Road Traffic Act

(CHAPTER 276, Section 142)

Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) (Exemption) Order

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G.N. No. S 181/1998

REVISED EDITION 1999

(30th September 1999)

[1st April 1998]

Citation

1. This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) (Exemption) Order.

Exemption

2.—(1) The Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2015 (G.N. No. S 226/2015) (except rules 3, 4 and 7(1)(a) to (e) of, and the Second Schedule to, those Rules) do not apply to the following vehicles:

(a)	authorised ambulances; [S 1064/2021 wef 03/01/2022]
(b)	fire engines;
(ba)	authorised medical transport vehicles; [S 1064/2021 wef 03/01/2022]
(c)	police vehicles;
(d)	any motor vehicle operated by the Singapore Civil Defence Force for use in a civil defence emergency (as defined in section 2 of the Civil Defence Act (Cap. 42));
(e)	any vehicle being towed by another vehicle.

[S 1064/2021 wef 03/01/2022]

(2) In this paragraph —

“ambulance” means a motor vehicle that is specifically equipped for —

(a)	the transport on roads of; and
(b)	the provision, during such transport, of out-of-hospital clinical care to,

sick or injured individuals who require emergency medical treatment;

“authorised”, for an ambulance or medical transport vehicle, means —

(a)	being specified in a licence (other than a revoked licence) under the Healthcare Services Act 2020 authorising the use of the ambulance or medical transport vehicle (as the case may be) to provide a licensable healthcare service specified in that licence; or
(b)	being owned by the Government and used for the purposes of the Singapore Armed Forces or the Singapore Civil Defence Force;

“medical transport vehicle” means a motor vehicle that is equipped to provide non-emergency patient transport services;

“non-emergency patient transport services” means transport services for fee or reward that relate solely to the provision of transport on roads of individuals —

(a)	whose medical needs have been assessed as requiring patient transport and not being time-critical or acute; and
(b)	who may require basic care and observation or clinical care and monitoring during transport.

[S 1064/2021 wef 03/01/2022]

[G.N. No. S 181/98]

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