Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) (Vocational Licences and Conduct of Drivers, Conductors, Trishaw Riders and Passengers) Rules

Road Traffic Act

(CHAPTER 276, Sections 111, 140 and 144)

R 8

G.N. No. S 189/1974

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[12th July 1974]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) (Vocational Licences and Conduct of Drivers, Conductors, Trishaw Riders and Passengers) Rules.

[S 572/2009 wef 20/11/2009]

Definitions

2. For the purpose of these Rules —

“assessment report” means an assessment report prepared in accordance with rule 4(3) certifying that a person is physically and mentally fit to hold a licence to drive a bus or a taxi;

[S 252/2012 wef 01/06/2012]

“authorised officer” means a person authorised by the Registrar to discharge any of the functions and duties or to exercise any of the powers of the Registrar under these Rules;

“authorised person” means a licensee of a public service vehicle, or employee of the owner of a public service vehicle, or a person acting as a driver or conductor of a vehicle while it is being used for the carriage of passengers for the purpose of gain;

“certificate of fitness” means a certificate of fitness prepared in accordance with rule 4(3A) certifying that a person is physically and mentally fit to hold a licence to drive a vehicle or to be a conductor;

[S 252/2012 wef 01/06/2012]

“conductor” means a person licensed under these Rules to act as a conductor of a vehicle;

“driver” means a person licensed under these Rules to drive a vehicle;

“licence” means a vocational licence to act as a driver or conductor of a vehicle or to ride a trishaw granted under these Rules;

“licensee” means the holder of a licence and, in Part III only, includes a person who is exempted under section 142 of the Act from the requirement to hold a licence;

[S 674/2004 wef 05/11/2004]

“medical practitioner” means a person registered under the Medical Registration Act (Cap. 174) and includes a person deemed to be so registered under section 72(1) of that Act;

[S 252/2012 wef 01/06/2012]

“occupational therapist” means an occupational therapist working at a healthcare institution designated by the Registrar;

[S 252/2012 wef 01/06/2012]

“public stand” means any public stand provided for public service vehicles under Part V of the Act and includes a bus terminus and taxi stand;

[S 139/2007 wef 30/03/2007]

“taxi service operator” means a taxi service operator licensed by the Authority under Part VA of the Act;

[S 736/2015 wef 01/12/2015]

“taxi stop” means an area of a road designated as such by means of a sign similar to that specified in Diagram 2 of the First Schedule and marked on the road by means of yellow lines;

[S 164/2011 wef 29/03/2011]

[S 539/2011 wef 21/09/2011]

“trishaw rider” means a person licensed under these Rules to ride a trishaw for the purpose of gain;

“vehicle” means any public service vehicle;

“vocational licence” means a vocational licence issued under section 110 of the Act.

[S 586/91 wef 01/01/1992]

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