Powers to inspect premises, etc., for Part 3A, 3B or 4 matters
Open ↗44.—(1) An authorised officer may exercise all or any of the powers in this section for the purpose of —(a)
ascertaining whether the provisions of Part 3A, 3B or 4 are being complied with or have been contravened; or[Act 5 of 2026 wef 04/05/2026]
(b)
investigating any offence under Part 3A, 3B or 4.[38/2018]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 04/05/2026]
(2) An authorised officer may, at any reasonable time, do any of the following, without involving any search of any property or individual:(a)
enter and inspect any premises that the officer believes on reasonable grounds are used for the carrying on of a business or a trade (even if also used as a residence) of selling, or offering or exposing for sale, by retail any bicycle, PAB, personal mobility device or mobility vehicle, or used for altering any bicycle, PAB, personal mobility device or mobility vehicle, and any vehicle at those premises;[Act 5 of 2026 wef 04/05/2026]
(b)
photograph or film, or make a record or sketches of, any part of the premises, or any vehicle or parts of a vehicle or accessories or other thing at the premises;
(c)
require any person on those premises to produce or grant access to, without charge, any document or material reasonably required for any purpose in subsection (1), which is in the possession or under the control of that person;
(d)
inspect and make copies of or take extracts from any such document or material;
(e)
take possession of such a document or material if, in the opinion of the authorised officer —(i)
the inspection or copying of or extraction from the document or material cannot reasonably be performed without taking possession;
(ii)
the document or material may be interfered with or destroyed unless possession is taken; or
(iii)
the document or material may be required as evidence in any proceedings instituted or commenced for any of the purposes of, or in connection with, Part 3A, 3B or 4.[38/2018; 9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 04/05/2026]
(3) The power to require a person to furnish any document or material under subsection (2)(c) includes the power —(a)
to require the person, or any person who is or was an officer or employee of that person, to provide an explanation of the document or material;
(b)
if the document or material is not furnished, to require the person to state, to the best of the person’s knowledge and belief, where it is; and
(c)
if the document or material is recorded otherwise than in legible form, to require the document or material to be made available to the authorised officer in legible form.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2), if any document or material required by an authorised officer is kept in electronic form —(a)
the power of the authorised officer to inspect the document or material includes the power to —(i)
access any computer or other equipment (including a mobile telephone) in which the document or material is stored; and
(ii)
require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer or equipment to provide assistance in gaining such access; and
(b)
the power of the authorised officer to seize such document or material includes the power —(i)
to make copies of the document or material in legible or electronic form; and
(ii)
to transfer the information from the document or material to a disk, tape or other storage device.
(5) If an authorised officer is unable to make copies of the document or material, or transfer the information from the document or material, under subsection (4)(b), the authorised officer may —(a)
seize the computer or other equipment (including a mobile telephone) in which the document or material is stored, as evidence in proceedings for an offence under Part 3A, 3B or 4; and[Act 5 of 2026 wef 04/05/2026]
(b)
require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer or equipment to disclose any password or access code for gaining access to the document or material held in the computer or equipment.[38/2018]
(6) To avoid doubt, in this section, a reference to an offence under Part 3A, 3B or 4 includes a reference to an offence under any regulations made for the purposes of Part 3A, 3B or 4.[38/2018]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 04/05/2026]
Power to move vehicles
Open ↗45.—(1) Where any stationary vehicle —(a)
is parked or left on a public path contrary to this Act; or
(b)
is, in the opinion of an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden (as the case may be) a danger to other users of a public path or is causing or likely to cause an obstruction or inconvenience on a public path,
the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden may move, or cause to be moved, the vehicle to a holding yard, or to another place to avoid further danger, obstruction or inconvenience or a danger, obstruction or inconvenience arising, as the case may be.
[38/2018]
(2) If a vehicle is left on a public path and it appears to an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden that the vehicle has been left for 2 or more consecutive days, the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden may move, or cause to be moved, the vehicle to a holding yard.[38/2018]
(3) When a vehicle is moved to a holding yard under this section by an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden, the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden must as soon as practicable give notice of the move to the owner of the vehicle, if known.[38/2018]
(4) For the purpose of exercising a power under subsection (1) or (2), an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden may, with such assistance as he or she considers necessary —(a)
move the vehicle by any reasonable means (including by driving, riding or towing it); and
(b)
use reasonable force (including cutting or breaking open any lock, seal, fastener or other device on or connected to the vehicle).[38/2018]
Power to remove obstructing article, etc., on public path
Open ↗46.—(1) If any article or thing (other than a vehicle) is obstructing the use of, or is causing inconvenience to the exercise of any right by any person under section 12 or 13 on, a public path in contravention of section 28(1), an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden may move that article or thing, or cause it to be so removed, so that it is no longer an obstruction or inconvenience.[38/2018]
(2) An authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden must not exercise a power under subsection (1) unless he or she has —(a)
taken reasonable steps to inform the owner of the article or thing (if known) of his or her intention to exercise that power; and
(b)
allowed or directed the owner of the article or thing to move it.[38/2018]
(3) For the purpose of exercising a power under subsection (1), an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden may, with such assistance as he or she considers necessary —(a)
move the article or thing by any reasonable means (including by towing it) to a holding yard; and
(b)
use reasonable force (including cutting or breaking open any lock, seal, fastener or other device on or connected to the article or thing).[38/2018]
(4) A person must remove any article or thing where requested to do so by an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden under subsection (2)(b).[38/2018]
(5) A person who contravenes subsection (4) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.
(6) When an article or thing is moved to a holding yard under this section by an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden, the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden must as soon as practicable give notice of the move to the owner of the article or thing, if known.[38/2018]
Powers to examine and weigh vehicle or produce competency test certificate or certificate of medical need
Open ↗47.—(1) An authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden may, for the purpose of ensuring that any vehicle that is being or may be used, or that any person driving, riding or using a vehicle, on a public path complies with this Act, at any time —(a)
examine the vehicle;
(b)
order the driver, rider or user of the vehicle to produce his or her competency test certificate or certificate of medical need for examination or other identity documents so as to enable the authorised officer, public path warden or outsourced enforcement officer (as the case may be) to ascertain the identity of the driver, rider or user and the authority by which any competency test certificate or certificate of medical need was granted; or[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(c)
order the owner, rider or user of the vehicle to deliver the vehicle (in the state on the date of the order) for an inspection by such person and at such time and place as the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden may specify.[38/2018; 9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(2) However, only an authorised officer may pursuant to an order under section 35A(1) give an order under subsection (1)(c) requiring a vehicle to be delivered for an inspection by a designated examiner.[9/2020]
(3) Subject to this Act, an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden may require an owner, a rider or a user of any vehicle —(a)
to allow the vehicle to be weighed laden or unladen; or
(b)
to immediately proceed to a weighbridge or other machine for weighing vehicles.[38/2018]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(4) Subject to this Act, an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden may, require an owner, a rider or a user of any vehicle to unload the vehicle for the purpose of being weighed unladen.[38/2018]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(5) Where a vehicle is weighed under this section, a certificate of weight must be given by the person who carried out the weighing of the vehicle to the owner, rider or user who delivered the vehicle for weighing.[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(6) An individual driving, riding or using a vehicle who, in purported compliance with any order given to him or her under subsection (1)(b) by an authorised officer or outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden —(a)
produces to an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden —(i)
a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need that is altered in a way that is calculated to deceive (whether or not it was already a false document before the alteration or it was altered by the individual), knowing that it is so altered;[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(ii)
an article resembling a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need and calculated to deceive, knowing that the document is not a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need; or[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(iii)
a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need that was not granted to the individual, knowing that it was not so granted to that individual; and[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(b)
with the intention of dishonestly inducing the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden to accept it as genuine,
commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
[9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(7) A driver, rider or user of a vehicle to whom an order under subsection (1)(b) is given who refuses or neglects to comply with the order commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction —(a)
to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both; but
(b)
where the individual is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.[9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(8) However, subsection (7) does not apply in relation to an order given to a driver or rider of a vehicle to produce a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need under subsection (1)(b) if within 48 hours after the order is given, the driver or rider produces the competency test certificate or certificate of medical need in person at any of the offices of the Authority that is specified by the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden at the time the order was given.[9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(9) An individual to whom a digital competency test certificate or certificate of medical need is granted who holds, or produces or carries a mobile communication device or other electronic device on which the digital competency test certificate or certificate of medical need is displayed for the purpose of complying with an order under subsection (1)(b) to produce a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need is taken to have produced a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need for that purpose.[9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(10) However, a digital competency test certificate or certificate of medical need is not displayed for the purpose of complying with an order under subsection (1)(b) to produce or carry a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need if —(a)
the screen of the mobile communication device or other electronic device on which it is purportedly displayed is unable to be read by the person to whom it is displayed due to cracking, dimming, dirt or any other fault, damage or obstruction;
(b)
the individual fails or refuses to comply with a reasonable request by the person to whom it is purported to be displayed to facilitate the reading, copying or scanning of the whole or any part of the digital competency test certificate or certificate of medical need; or[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(c)
the holder of the digital competency test certificate or certificate of medical need refuses to comply with a reasonable direction to refresh the display of the digital competency test certificate or certificate of medical need.[9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(11) To avoid doubt, an individual who displays or purports to display a digital competency test certificate or certificate of medical need is not required to give or hand over, to the person who is requiring the competency test certificate or certificate of medical need to be produced or handed over, the mobile communication device or other electronic device on which the digital competency test certificate or certificate of medical need is displayed or purported to be displayed.[9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(12) If an owner, a rider or a user of a vehicle refuses or neglects to comply with any order given to him or her under subsection (1)(c), or any requirement given to him or her under subsection (3) or (4), the owner, rider or user shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —(a)
to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both; but
(b)
where the owner, rider or user is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
Powers to demand information about driver, etc.
Open ↗48.—(1) An authorised officer or outsourced enforcement officer, or a police officer or public path warden who is acting in the execution of duty may require any person whom the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer, police officer or public path warden believes on reasonable grounds to have had possession or control of a vehicle on a particular occasion to give any information which may lead to the identification of an individual —(a)
who was the driver, rider or user of the vehicle on any occasion that the driver, rider or user is alleged or is suspected to be guilty of an offence under this Act; or[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(b)
who had possession or control of the vehicle on any occasion that the driver, rider or user is alleged or is suspected to be guilty of an offence under this Act.[38/2018]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(2) The person, when required by an authorised officer or outsourced enforcement officer, or a police officer or public path warden to do so under subsection (1), must give to the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer, police officer or public path warden (as the case may be), within 14 days after being so required, the information required under that subsection.[38/2018]
(3) A requirement under subsection (1) may be made orally or in writing, and require any information to be furnished under that subsection to be in writing signed by the person required to furnish the information.
(4) A person who fails to give in accordance with subsection (2) the information required of the person under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —(a)
to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both; but
(b)
where the person is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.[38/2018]
(5) However, it is a defence in any proceedings for an offence under subsection (4) where the accused proves, on a balance of probabilities, that the accused did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained, the information required under subsection (1).
(6) In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (4), an accused which is a company, a partnership or an unincorporated body is not to be treated as having proved that the accused did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained the information required unless the accused also proves, on a balance of probabilities, that —(a)
it had kept a proper and accurate record containing prescribed particulars of each occasion on which it permits any individual to ride, drive or use a vehicle —(i)
whether or not the individual is a director, member, partner, officer, employee or agent of the accused or otherwise; and
(ii)
whether or not the individual is permitted to ride, drive or use the vehicle in the course of the individual’s employment with the accused or otherwise; but[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(b)
the record shows no individual having been permitted by the accused to ride, drive or use the vehicle at or about the time of the alleged offence.[38/2018]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
Powers of arrest
Open ↗49.—(1) An authorised officer or a public path warden in uniform may stop and arrest any individual —(a)
who commits an offence under this Act in the presence or within the view of the authorised officer or public path warden; and
(b)
who, on the demand of the authorised officer or public path warden (as the case may be) refuses to give his or her name and residential address.
(2) Such an individual must not be arrested under subsection (1) if he or she —(a)
on the demand of the authorised officer or public path warden, produces any of his or her documents of identity so as to enable the authorised officer or public path warden to ascertain the individual’s name and residential address; or
(b)
gives the authorised officer or public path warden his or her name and residential address.
(3) If the authorised officer or public path warden has reason to suspect that a name or address so ascertained or given is false, the authorised officer or public path warden (as the case may be) may, despite subsection (2), exercise the power of arrest under subsection (1).
(4) Any individual arrested under this section must be brought to a police station as soon as reasonably practicable and must be taken before a Magistrate’s Court if the individual’s name and residential address are not ascertained at the end of 24 hours after the arrest.
(5) An individual taken before a Magistrate’s Court under subsection (4) must be immediately released on his or her executing a bond (with or without sureties) for his or her appearance before a Magistrate’s Court, if so required.
(6) An authorised officer or public path warden in uniform may —(a)
detain any bicycle, power‑assisted bicycle, personal mobility device or other vehicle in respect of which an offence under this Act has been committed in his or her presence or within his or her view; or
(b)
stop any bicycle, power‑assisted bicycle, personal mobility device or other vehicle the driver or rider of which has committed or is suspected of having committed an offence under this Act.
(7) Any individual mentioned in subsection (6)(b) must stop the bicycle, power‑assisted bicycle, personal mobility device or other vehicle he or she is driving or riding on being required by an authorised officer or public path warden in uniform under subsection (6), and if he or she fails to do so, he or she shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —(a)
to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both; but
(b)
where he or she is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
Power to seize vehicles, competency test certificates or certificates of medical need
Open ↗50.—(1) Where an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden has reason to believe that a vehicle is a vehicle in connection with which an offence under Part 3, 3A, 3B or 4 has been or is being committed, the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden may —(a)
seize the vehicle and take it to a holding yard; or
(b)
require the owner, driver, rider, user or person in charge of the vehicle to take the vehicle to and surrender it at a specified holding yard.[38/2018; 9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 04/05/2026]
(2) The power conferred on an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden under subsection (1)(a) may be exercised whether or not the owner, driver, rider, user or person in charge of the vehicle is present at the time of its seizure.[38/2018]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 04/05/2026]
(3) When a vehicle is seized under this section by an authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden, the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden concerned must as soon as practicable give notice of the seizure and the grounds of doing so to the owner of the vehicle, if known, except that the notice is not required to be given where the seizure is made in the presence of the owner or the owner’s agent.[38/2018]
(4) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, refuses or neglects to comply with any requirement under subsection (1)(b) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months.
(5) An authorised officer, an outsourced enforcement officer or a public path warden may, with no other authority than this section, seize a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need or an article resembling a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need if —(a)
the competency test certificate or certificate of medical need or article is produced to the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden pursuant to an order under section 47(1)(b) or otherwise, by an individual who represents it as a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need granted to that individual; and[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(b)
the authorised officer, outsourced enforcement officer or public path warden has reason to believe that —(i)
the competency test certificate or certificate of medical need is unlawfully in the possession of that individual who produced it; or[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(ii)
the competency test certificate or certificate of medical need or article is evidence of the commission of an offence under section 23H, 23L or 47(6).[9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(6) Every competency test certificate or certificate of medical need seized under subsection (5) must be forwarded to the Authority, and the Authority may —(a)
return the competency test certificate or certificate of medical need to the individual who produced it, if the Authority is satisfied that the competency test certificate or certificate of medical need was lawfully in the possession of the individual who produced it; or[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(b)
in any other case, deal with it in such manner as the Authority thinks fit.[9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
(7) However, the authority conferred by subsection (5) to seize a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need or any article resembling a competency test certificate or certificate of medical need does not extend to a mobile communication device or other electronic device on which a digital competency test certificate or certificate of medical need is displayed.[9/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 01/06/2026]
Forfeiture of seized vehicles
Open ↗51.—(1) Subject to this section, all vehicles liable to seizure under the provisions of this Act are liable to forfeiture by a court.
(2) An order for the forfeiture of a vehicle seized or surrendered under section 50 may be made by the Authority if it is satisfied that —(a)
the vehicle is a non‑compliant personal mobility device, non‑compliant bicycle, non‑compliant PAB, non‑compliant mobility vehicle or non‑compliant non‑motorised wheelchair;[Act 5 of 2026 wef 04/05/2026]
(b)
an offence under this Act has been committed and that the vehicle was the subject matter, or was used in the commission, of the offence;
(c)
at the end of 30 days after the date of the seizure or surrender, no claim to the vehicle is earlier made in the prescribed manner to the Authority by a person who is not the person from whom the vehicle was seized or required to surrender the vehicle (or the latter person’s agent); and
(d)
a person is convicted of the offence, or a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence has that offence compounded under section 55.[26/2020]
(3) Despite subsection (2), the Authority may at once order the forfeiture of a vehicle seized or surrendered under section 50 —(a)
that is a non‑compliant personal mobility device, non‑compliant bicycle, non‑compliant PAB or non‑compliant mobility vehicle; and
(b)
that the Authority considers is of such a nature or in such condition that it would be dangerous for the Authority to retain custody, or its detention in a holding yard materially increases the likelihood of an outbreak of fire at the holding yard.[26/2020]
(4) Upon receipt of a claim mentioned in subsection (2)(c), the Authority may direct that the vehicle be released or may refer the matter by information to a Magistrate.[26/2020]
(5) The Magistrate must, on receipt of an information under subsection (4), or on the written application of the Public Prosecutor, hold an inquiry and proceed to determine the matter and must, on proof that the vehicle was used in the commission of an offence under this Act, order the vehicle to be forfeited, or may in the absence of such proof order its release.
(6) In any proceedings under subsection (5), the burden of proof lies on the person asserting that the person is the owner of the vehicle concerned, and on the person from whom the vehicle was seized, as the case may be.
(7) In any proceedings in any court in respect of the forfeiture of any vehicle seized in exercise or the purported exercise of any power conferred under section 50, no person is entitled to the costs of such proceedings or to any damages or other relief except an order for the return of the vehicle, unless the seizure was made without reasonable or probable cause.
Holding yards
Open ↗52.—(1) A vehicle, or an article or a thing, which is moved to a holding yard under section 45 or 46, surrendered at a holding yard under section 50 or forfeited under section 51 must be detained there until it is released by order of the Authority or sold, destroyed or disposed of in accordance with section 53.[Act 5 of 2026 wef 27/02/2026]
(2) Any person who removes or causes to be removed such a vehicle, article or thing from the holding yard without the order of the Authority shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months.
Disposal of forfeited or detained vehicles
Open ↗53.—(1) Where any vehicle is forfeited by the Authority under section 51, an authorised officer may, after giving notice in accordance with subsection (5A) of his or her intention to do so —(a)
sell by public auction or tender the vehicle and any uncollected item left in or on the vehicle; or
(b)
destroy or otherwise dispose of the vehicle, article or thing (as the case may be).[Act 5 of 2026 wef 27/02/2026]
(2) However, the Authority may direct that a vehicle that is forfeited by the Authority under section 51(3) and is the subject of a notice under subsection (1) be returned to a person if —(a)
before the end of the period of the notice in subsection (1), the Authority receives from that person a written objection to the intended sale, destruction or disposal of the vehicle and showing good cause why possession of the vehicle should be returned to the person; and
(b)
there is no reasonable cause for the Authority to believe that an offence under this Act has been committed and the vehicle was the subject matter, or was used in the commission, of the offence.[26/2020]
(3) Where a vehicle or an article or a thing is moved to a holding yard under section 45 or 46, or a vehicle is surrendered at a holding yard under section 50, it becomes unclaimed if, at the end of 30 days after the day on which the vehicle, article or thing was so moved or surrendered —(a)
there is no person who appears, to the satisfaction of the Authority, to be the owner of the vehicle, article or thing, as the case may be; or
(b)
there is such a person but that person has not exercised his or her right to recover the vehicle, article or thing by a claim.[38/2018]
(4) Where a vehicle, article or thing which is moved to or surrendered at a holding yard under section 45, 46 or 50 becomes unclaimed, an authorised officer may, after giving one month’s notice in the Gazette of his or her intention to do so —(a)
sell by public auction or tender the vehicle, article or thing (as the case may be) and any uncollected item left in or on the vehicle, article or thing; or
(b)
destroy or otherwise dispose of the vehicle, article or thing, as the case may be.
(5) Despite subsection (4), where it appears to the Authority that any vehicle, article or thing which is moved to a holding yard under section 45 or 46 —(a)
is —(i)
a non‑compliant personal mobility device, non‑compliant bicycle, non‑compliant PAB or non‑compliant mobility vehicle; and
(ii)
of such a nature or in such condition that it would be dangerous for the Authority to retain custody, or its detention in a holding yard materially increases the likelihood of an outbreak of fire at the holding yard;
(b)
is a perishable article or thing that may rapidly depreciate in value; or
(c)
is an article or a thing of such a nature or in such condition that it would be dangerous for the Authority to retain custody of the article or thing,
the Authority may, after giving notice in accordance with subsection (5A) of its intention to do so, cause the vehicle, article or thing to be —
(d)
sold (by public auction or otherwise) at once; or
(e)
destroyed or otherwise disposed of at once in such manner as the Authority thinks fit.[26/2020]
[Act 5 of 2026 wef 27/02/2026]
(5A) The notice required by subsection (1) or (5) is given by publishing a notice of the intended sale, destruction or disposal in the Gazette —(a)
in the case of a vehicle mentioned in section 51(3) — at least 7 days before taking any action under subsection (1);
(b)
in the case of a vehicle mentioned in subsection (5)(a) — at least 7 days before taking any action under subsection (5); and
(c)
in any other case — at least one month before taking any action under subsection (1) or (5), as the case may be.[Act 5 of 2026 wef 27/02/2026]
(6) The proceeds of a sale by public auction or tender of any vehicle, article or thing under subsection (1), (4) or (5) must be applied as follows:(a)
firstly, in payment of the expenses occasioned by the sale;
(b)
secondly, in payment of storage or other expenses incurred by the Authority in relation to the vehicle, article or thing;
(c)
thirdly, by payment of the balance into the Consolidated Fund.[26/2020]
(7) A purchaser of a vehicle, article, item or thing sold in accordance with subsection (1), (4) or (5) acquires good title to that vehicle, article, item or thing.[26/2020]
(8) If the owner of a vehicle is convicted of or has been permitted to compound an offence under this Act, the expenses incurred by the Authority in carrying out the provisions of this section are recoverable by the Authority and, in case of dispute or neglect to pay, may be summarily ascertained by a Magistrate’s Court and may be recovered in the same manner as if the expenses were fines imposed by that Court.
(9) If —(a)
before the end of one year starting on the date a vehicle, an article or a thing was moved to a holding yard under section 45 or 46; but
(b)
after the vehicle, article or thing has been sold, destroyed or disposed of under subsection (5),
a person who appears, to the satisfaction of the Authority, to be the owner of the vehicle, article or thing claims that vehicle, article or thing, the Authority may pay the person, out of the funds of the Authority, the balance after deducting all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Authority in moving, storing and selling, destroying or disposing of the vehicle, article or thing (as the case may be) from the value of the vehicle, article or thing when it was moved to a holding yard.
[26/2020]
Ticketing
Open ↗54.—(1) Where an authorised officer or public path warden has reasonable grounds for believing that a person has committed an offence under this Act that is prescribed as an offence to which this section applies, the authorised officer or public path warden may, in lieu of applying to a court for a summons, serve upon that person a prescribed notice requiring that person to attend at the court described, at the hour and on the date specified in the notice.
(2) A duplicate of the notice must be prepared by the authorised officer or public path warden and, if so required by a court, produced to the court.
(3) The notice may be served on the person alleged to have committed the offence.
(4) On an accused person appearing before a court pursuant to a notice under subsection (1), the court is to take cognizance of the offence alleged, and is to proceed as though the accused person were produced before it pursuant to section 153 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.
(5) If a person, upon whom a notice has been served under subsection (1), fails to appear before a court in person or by counsel as required by that notice, the court may, if satisfied that the notice was duly served, issue a warrant for the arrest of the person unless, in the case of an offence which may be compounded, that person has before that date been permitted to compound the offence.
(6) Upon a person arrested pursuant to a warrant issued under subsection (5) being produced before a court, the court is to proceed as though the person were produced before it pursuant to section 153 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.[Act 31 of 2022 wef 01/11/2022]
(7) [Deleted by Act 31 of 2022 wef 01/11/2022]
(8) An authorised officer or a public path warden may, at any time before the date specified in the notice under subsection (1), cancel the notice.
Composition of offences
Open ↗55.—(1) The Chief Executive of the Authority, or any employee of the Authority or public path warden authorised in writing by the Authority for the purpose of this provision, may compound any offence under this Act that is prescribed as a compoundable offence.
(2) A compoundable offence may be compounded under this section —(a)
by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the following:(i)
one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is prescribed for the offence;
(ii)
$5,000; and
(b)
by requiring the person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence to do, or to refrain from doing, such things as are specified in an offer of composition (called conditions of composition) by the Chief Executive of the Authority, or any employee of the Authority or public path warden mentioned in subsection (1) with the concurrence (general or specific) of the Public Prosecutor.
(3) On payment of such sum of money and on full compliance with the conditions of composition, no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.
(4) All sums collected under this section must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
Source: Singapore Statutes Online (Attorney-General's Chambers), © Government of Singapore.
