Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2011

No. S 97

Road Traffic Act

(Chapter 276)

Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2011

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34D and 140(1) of the Road Traffic Act, the Minister for Transport hereby makes the following Rules:

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2011 and shall come into operation on 1st March 2011.

Definitions

2. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“card machine” means a machine designated by the Registrar for recording information in an electronic form on a vehicle entry card and for deducting any toll, vehicle entry fee or road-user charge from a vehicle entry card;

“credit card” has the same meaning as in Part VIII of the Banking Act (Cap. 19);

“ERP” is the abbreviation for Electronic Road Pricing;

“ERP card” means a stored-value card which, when used by a person with an in-vehicle unit in a motor vehicle, results in the appropriate amount of road-user charge being automatically debited against the stored value of the card when the vehicle is ridden, driven or moved into a specified entry point on a specified road during the restricted hours;

“ERP facility” means any electronic or computerised facility installed or caused to be installed by the Authority at any specified entry point on a road under section 34C of the Act;

“in-vehicle unit” means a transponder or any other device as approved by the Registrar which is installed in a motor vehicle to facilitate the levying and payment of road-user charges by electronic means;

“motor car” means a motor vehicle described in section 4(1)(d) and (e) of the Act;

“participating bank” means a bank or financial institution which has entered into an arrangement with the Authority to provide for the payment of road-user charges by credit card;

“relevant checkpoint” means the Immigration Checkpoint at Woodlands, the Immigration Checkpoint at Tuas or the Changi Ferry Terminal;

“restricted hours” means the periods, as specified in the First Schedule, during which a road-user charge will be levied for riding, driving or moving a motor vehicle into a specified entry point on a specified road;

“specified entry point”, in relation to a specified road, means the entry point as specified in the First Schedule;

“specified road” means any of the roads as specified in the First Schedule;

“stored value” means —

(a)	in relation to an ERP card, the amount of money standing to the credit of the person to whom the card has been issued and against which payments of road-user charges are automatically debited when the card is used with the in-vehicle unit installed in a motor vehicle; or
(b)	in relation to a vehicle entry card, the amount of money standing to the credit of the card;

“toll” means the toll payable for the use of the Johore Bahru — Woodlands Causeway or the Second Crossing under the Road Traffic (Collection of Toll at Woodlands and Tuas Checkpoints) Rules (R 12);

“vehicle entry card” means a vehicle entry card issued under rule 19(3) or 22C(2) of the Road Traffic (International Circulation) Rules (R 7);

“vehicle entry fee” means the fee payable for a vehicle entry permit granted under Part IV of the Road Traffic (International Circulation) Rules.

Made this 24th day of February 2011.

CHOI SHING KWOK

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[LTA/RTA/AD/IE-ERP-REV.11; AG/LLRD/SL/276/2010/5 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 141(1) of the Road Traffic Act).

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