Land Transport Authority of Singapore Act 1995

Land Transport Authority of
Singapore Act 1995

2020 REVISED EDITION

This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021

An Act to establish and incorporate the Land Transport Authority of Singapore, to provide for its functions and powers, and for matters connected therewith.

[1 September 1995]

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act is the Land Transport Authority of Singapore Act 1995.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“accoutrement” includes —

(a)	a uniform; and
(b)	surveillance equipment capable of being worn on the body for the purpose of recording a view of, or recording a conversation between, the wearer and another individual;

“Authority” means the Land Transport Authority of Singapore established under section 3;

“bus service” means a service for the carriage of passengers for a fare or other consideration by one or more buses operating on pre‑determined timetables and routes;

“bus service licence” has the meaning given by the Bus Services Industry Act 2015;

“Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Authority and includes any acting Chairperson of the Authority;

“Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Authority, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;

“claim” means a claim for compensation under section 20;

“claimant” means a person who has made a claim for compensation;

“Compensation Board” means the Compensation Board established under section 26;

“construction”, in relation to a railway or road, includes —

(a)	the reconstruction or realignment of the railway or road;
(b)	permanently improving the railway or road or otherwise bringing it to a higher standard; and
(c)	any associated investigative and engineering studies,

but does not include the planning, maintenance and management of the railway or road;

“Deputy Chairperson” means the Deputy Chairperson of the Authority;

“Land Transport Revenue Account” or “Account” means the Land Transport Revenue Account established under section 12;

“land transport system” means the infrastructure facilitating transport on land by the railway or road;

“maintenance”, in relation to a railway or road, includes the execution of all works of any description which are necessary to keep the railway or road in the state of utility in which it was on the completion of its construction;

“member” means a member of the Authority;

“outsourced enforcement officer” means an individual who is appointed under section 11 as an outsourced enforcement officer;

“president” means the president of the Compensation Board appointed under section 26;

“Rail Infrastructure Fund” means the fund of that name established under section 13C;

“railway” has the meaning given by the Rapid Transit Systems Act 1995 or the Cross‑Border Railways Act 2018, as the case may be;

“road” includes —

(a)	any street, bridge, underpass, tunnel square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way;
(b)	any street, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to 2 or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way over it or not; and
(c)	all channels, sewers, drains, tunnels, ditches and reserves at the side of any road. [17/2012; 30/2015; 5/2018; 21/2018; 38/2018; 49/2018]

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