Active Mobility (Dealing in Personal Mobility Devices and Mobility Vehicles) Regulations 2018

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as at 17 Nov 2024

No. S 243

Active Mobility Act 2017

(ACT 3 OF 2017)

Active Mobility (Dealing in Personal Mobility Devices and Mobility Vehicles) Regulations 2018

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 67(1) of the Active Mobility Act 2017, the Land Transport Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Active Mobility (Dealing in Personal Mobility Devices and Mobility Vehicles) Regulations 2018 and come into operation on 1 May 2018.

[S 68/2019 wef 01/02/2019]

Definitions

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

“mobility vehicle” means —

(a)	a mobility scooter; or
(b)	a motorised wheelchair;

“premises” or “place” means any premises or place where a person is, in the course of business, selling, or offering or exposing for sale, by retail, any personal mobility device or mobility vehicle.

[S 68/2019 wef 01/02/2019]

Number of warning notices

3. For the purposes of section 31(1) of the Act, the prescribed number of warning notices that must be displayed within each premises or place is one for any personal mobility device and one for any mobility vehicle being sold, or offered or exposed for sale, by retail, on the premises or place.

[S 68/2019 wef 01/02/2019]

Form, text and minimum dimensions of warning notices

4.—(1) For the purposes of section 31 of the Act, a person who is, in the course of business, selling, or offering or exposing for sale, by retail, any personal mobility device on any premises or place must ensure that the warning notice mentioned in that section —

(a)	is in the form, and contains the text, as specified in the First Schedule; [S 68/2019 wef 01/02/2019]
(b)	is not smaller than 29.7 cm × 42 cm; and
(c)	is printed indelibly in colour with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

(1A) For the purposes of section 31 of the Act, a person who is, in the course of business, selling, or offering or exposing for sale, by retail, any mobility vehicle on any premises or place must ensure that the warning notice mentioned in that section —

(a)	is in the form, and contains the text, as specified in the Second Schedule;
(b)	is not smaller than 29.7 cm × 42 cm; and
(c)	is printed indelibly in colour with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. [S 68/2019 wef 01/02/2019]

(2) A person who contravenes paragraph (1) or (1A) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —

(a)	in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both; and
(b)	in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both. [S 68/2019 wef 01/02/2019]

Manner of display of warning notices

5.—(1) For the purposes of section 31 of the Act, a person who is, in the course of business, selling, or offering or exposing for sale, by retail, any personal mobility device or mobility vehicle on any premises or place must ensure that the warning notice mentioned in that section is conspicuously displayed within those premises or that place —

(a)	at or near any point of sale in those premises or that place; or
(b)	at any point of payment in those premises or that place. [S 68/2019 wef 01/02/2019]

(2) A person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —

(a)	in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both; and
(b)	in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

(3) In this regulation —

“point of payment” means a cash register or counter at which payment for any purchase of a personal mobility device or mobility vehicle is made;

[S 68/2019 wef 01/02/2019]

“point of sale” means a part of any premises or place where any personal mobility device or mobility vehicle is displayed for sale.

[S 68/2019 wef 01/02/2019]

Made on 30 April 2018.

CHAN HENG LOON ALAN

Chairman,
Land Transport Authority of Singapore.

[LTA/LEGL/L18.056.002/JAS/DT/DPMD.18.01; AG/LEGIS/SL/2C/2015/3 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 67(4) of the Active Mobility Act 2017).

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