Road Traffic Act
(CHAPTER 276, Section 135(2))
Road Traffic (Composition of Offences) Rules
R 29
G.N. No. S 110/1986

REVISED EDITION 2008
(31st January 2008)
[1st June 1986]
Citation
1.  These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Composition of Offences) Rules.
List of offences
2.  The following offences may be compounded by the Deputy Commissioner of Police or any police officer not below the rank of sergeant specially authorised by name in that behalf by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, or by any employee of the Authority specially authorised by name in that behalf personally by the Registrar of Vehicles appointed under section 9(1) of the Act, in accordance with section 135(1) of the Act:
(a)the offences referred to in sections 5(6), 6A(2), 6B(1), 10(3), 11(9), 11A(3) and (4), 12(4), 15, 20(2), 23A(5), 24(3), 26(4), 27(3), 29(1), (2) and (4), 34E(4), 35(3), 36(5), 39(1), 63(4), 65, 65B(1), 73(2), 74(3), 77(5), 78(3), 81(1A) and (2), 84(7), 87(3), 94(2), 97(1), (2) and (3), 113(6), 115(8), 116(7), 118(6), 120(4), 121(6), 122, 123A(1A), 126(1), (2) and (5), 127(5) and (10) and 143(7), (8) and (9) of the Act; and
[S 633/2010 wef 01/11/2010]
[S 801/2013 wef 01/01/2014]
[S 44/2015 wef 01/02/2015]
(b)the offences under any rules or orders made under the Act.
[S 801/2013 wef 01/01/2014]
Conditions to compound certain offences
2A.—(1)  Despite rule 2, a specified offence may not be compounded by a person mentioned in that rule unless the Authority has received payment of the arrears stated in the offer of composition for the specified offence.
(2)  In this rule —
“arrears”, in relation to an offer of composition for a specified offence committed in respect of a motor vehicle, means the following amounts:
(a)any unpaid vehicle entry fee under rule 20E(1) of the Road Traffic (International Circulation) Rules (R 7) incurred in respect of the last entry of the motor vehicle into Singapore;
(b)any unpaid toll under rule 3(1) of the Road Traffic (Collection of Toll at Woodlands and Tuas Checkpoints) Rules (R 12) incurred in respect of the last entry of the motor vehicle into Singapore;
(c)any unpaid road-user charge under rule 11 of the Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2015 (G.N. No. S 226/2015) incurred in respect of the motor vehicle before the commission of the specified offence;
(d)any unpaid reciprocal road charge under rule 3(1) of the Road Traffic (Collection of Reciprocal Road Charge at Woodlands and Tuas Checkpoints) Rules 2017 (G.N. No. S 48/2017) incurred in respect of the motor vehicle before the commission of the specified offence;
“specified offence” means an offence under —
(a)rule 20H(1)(c) of the Road Traffic (International Circulation) Rules;
(b)rule 5(1) of the Road Traffic (Collection of Toll at Woodlands and Tuas Checkpoints) Rules; or
(c)rule 5(1) of the Road Traffic (Collection of Reciprocal Road Charge at Woodlands and Tuas Checkpoints) Rules 2017.
[S 49/2017 wef 15/02/2017]
Methods of payment
3.—(1)  When an offer of composition of any offence is made and accepted, payment shall be made —
(a)by cash, cheque, money order or postal order to the police officer or employee of the Authority authorised to make such offer of composition or to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, as the case may be, and he shall account for it in the ordinary way and issue a receipt for such payment to the person to whom the offer of composition was made;
(b)by an electronic fund transfer system whereby payment may be effected by directing the transfer of funds electronically from the bank account of the payer to a bank account so designated by the Commissioner of Police or the Authority, who or which shall account for the payment; or
(c)by cash, cheque, money order or postal order to a person authorised by the Authority to collect such payment or by an electronic fund transfer system to a bank account so designated by the Authority, who shall account for and issue a receipt for such payment.
(2)  The Commissioner of Police or the Authority may, from time to time, stipulate the various electronic fund transfer systems as he or it may think fit to be used for the purposes of these Rules.
Forms
4.  The Deputy Commissioner of Police or the Authority may —
(a)design and utilise such forms as he or it may think fit for the purposes of these Rules; and
(b)require any person to complete any of the forms for any such purposes.
[G.N. Nos. S 110/86; S 111/97; S 190/98; S 79/99; S 227/2003; S 123/2006; S 473/2007]