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 —

“affiliated driver”, for a private hire car booking service operator, means a chauffeured private hire car driver who has an affiliated driver agreement with the private hire car booking service operator; and it is immaterial whether the driver is an employee or agent of the private hire car booking service operator;

[S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

“affiliated driver agreement” means an agreement between a chauffeured private hire car driver and a private hire car booking service operator —

(a)	for the private hire car booking service operator to provide a booking service for the driver; and
(b)	for the driver to provide a ride‑sourcing service booked through the private hire car booking service operator, and using a stated chauffeured private hire car; [S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

“assessment report” means an assessment report prepared in accordance with rule 4(3) or 9(9) and (10), as the case may be;

[S 204/2016 wef 06/05/2016]

[S 651/2020 wef 30/07/2020]

“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)	the holder of a public service vehicle licence issued under section 102 of the Act;
(b)	an employee of the owner of a public service vehicle; or
(c)	a person acting as a driver or conductor of a public service vehicle while it is being used for the carriage of passengers for the purpose of gain; [S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

“certificate of fitness” means a certificate of fitness prepared in accordance with rule 4(3A) or 9A(3) or (4) (as the case may be) 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]

[S 651/2020 wef 30/07/2020]

“certified private hire car licensee” means a holder of a public service vehicle licence who is certified under rule 8 of the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules (R 14) as a certified private hire car licensee;

[S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

“chauffeured private hire car” means a motor car that is the subject of a chauffeured private hire car licence granted under the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules;

[S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

“chauffeured private hire car driver” means a person who is authorised by a licence to drive a chauffeured private hire car for reward (whether or not as an employee);

[S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

“Class 3 bus” means a bus the weight of which unladen does not exceed 2,500 kilograms;

[S 204/2016 wef 06/05/2016]

“Class 4 vehicle” means a vehicle the weight of which unladen exceeds 2,500 kilograms;

[S 651/2020 wef 30/07/2020]

“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;

“driving fitness assessor” means —

(a)	an occupational therapist; or
(b)	a person holding a valid licence under section 51 of the Act who is approved by the Registrar to make an assessment on whether a person is physically fit to hold a licence to drive a vehicle;

[S 651/2020 wef 30/07/2020]

“licence” means a vocational licence granted under section 110 of the Act authorising the holder —

(a)	to drive one or more classes of vehicles (excluding trishaws);
(b)	to act as the conductor of one or more classes of vehicles (excluding trishaws); or
(c)	to ride a trishaw; [S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

“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]

“permanent resident of Singapore” means a person who holds a valid entry permit under section 10 of the Immigration Act (Cap. 133) or a valid re-entry permit under section 11 of that Act;

[S 314/2019 wef 15/04/2019]

“private hire car” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules;

[S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

“private hire car booking service operator” means a person who, in the course of business, engages in the following conduct (including conduct outside Singapore, or partly inside or partly outside Singapore):

(a)	accepts, or makes provision for the invitation or acceptance of, bookings from people for a ride‑sourcing service; and
(b)	communicates the bookings to chauffeured private hire car drivers to carry out that ride‑sourcing service using a stated chauffeured private hire car,

but excludes —

(i)	a taxi service operator within the meaning of Part VA of the Act and is licensed as such under that Part; and
(ii)	a provider of a third-party taxi booking service within the meaning of the Third‑Party Taxi Booking Service Providers Act 2015 (Act 17 of 2015) and who is registered as such under that Act; [S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

“public stand” means any public stand provided for public service vehicles under Part V of the Act and includes any stand, stop or terminus provided for a class of public service vehicles;

[S 367/2016 wef 29/07/2016]

“ride-sourcing service” means a service where —

(a)	a passenger books transport for a journey within, or partly within, Singapore through a private hire car booking service operator;
(b)	the private hire car booking service operator communicates the passenger’s booking to a chauffeured private hire car driver; and
(c)	that driver carries out the transport booked using a chauffeured private hire car,

but does not include a taxi service within the meaning of the Public Transport Council Act (Cap. 259B);

[S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

“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 stand” means a public stand provided for taxis, indicated by a sign specified in Diagram 108B of Part III of the Schedule to the Road Traffic (Traffic Signs) Rules (R 33) and marked on the road by means of yellow lines;

[S 367/2016 wef 29/07/2016]

“taxi stop” means an area of a road indicated by a sign specified in Diagram 107(c) of Part III of the Schedule to the Road Traffic (Traffic Signs) Rules and marked on the road by means of yellow lines;

[S 367/2016 wef 29/07/2016]

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

“vehicle” means any public service vehicle;

[Deleted by S 313/2017 wef 20/06/2017]

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