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No. S 315

Road Traffic Act

(CHAPTER 276)

Road Traffic
(Self-Drive Private Hire Cars — Exemption)
Order 2017

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 142 of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Transport makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order is the Road Traffic (Self-Drive Private Hire Cars — Exemption) Order 2017 and comes into operation on 20 June 2017.

Definition

2. In this Order, “self‑drive private hire car” means a motor car that —

(a)	does not ply for hire on any road and is hired, or made available for hire, under a contract (express or implied), for use as a whole by a hirer, or any other person authorised by the hirer in the contract, to drive the car personally; and
(b)	is licensed under Part V of the Act for the use described in paragraph (a).

Exemption from vocational licence

3.—(1) Section 110(1)(a) of the Act does not apply to an individual who drives a self‑drive private hire car (called the driver) if —

(a)

the driver is —

(i)	the holder of the public service vehicle licence for the car or an individual who is authorised by the holder of such a licence to drive the car; or
(ii)	the hirer of the car under a contract for use as a self‑drive private hire car or an individual authorised by the hirer in the contract to drive the car personally; and

(b)

the car is used only to convey the driver, with or without any passengers, in a journey to a destination without reward to the driver for that journey.

(2) Rule 6 of the Road Traffic (Public Service Vehicles) Rules (R 14) does not apply to the holder of a public service licence for a self‑drive private hire car when the car is driven by an individual mentioned in sub‑paragraph (1)(a)(i) or (ii) in the circumstances mentioned in sub‑paragraph (1)(b).

Made on 19 June 2017.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[LTA/NN/TS/L18.030.002/01.17(PDVL); AG/LEGIS/SL/276/2015/15 Vol. 4]