§ 23 — Monitoring improper parking by hirers

23.—(1) A licensee providing a shared mobility service using a type of vehicles may enter into an information sharing arrangement with another licensee providing a shared mobility service using the same or different type of vehicles to share or exchange information held by the licensees for the purpose of subsection (4).(2) Under an information sharing arrangement mentioned in subsection (1), each party to the arrangement, despite any other Act, is authorised —(a)

to request and receive information held by the other party to the arrangement; and

(b)

to disclose information to the other party,

but only to the extent that the information is reasonably necessary to assist in the exercise of any power under subsection (4).

(3) However, the information to which an information sharing arrangement mentioned in subsection (1) may relate is limited to the following:(a)

information concerning possible improper parking in public places by hirers of vehicles which were hired from licensees who are party to the arrangement;

(b)

information about hirers in respect of whom a power under subsection (4) has been exercised by any licensee which is party to the arrangement;

(c)

other information prescribed.

(4) Every licensee —(a)

is entitled to refuse to hire or further hire for a period not exceeding a prescribed period to any individual any undocked vehicle used by the licensee to provide a shared mobility service where the licensee has reasonable grounds to believe that the individual persistently improperly parks vehicles (whether or not hired from the same licensee) in public places; and

(b)

must refuse to hire or further hire to a particular individual for a period not exceeding a prescribed period any undocked vehicle used by the licensee to provide a shared mobility service, where directed by the LTA under section 25.

(5) For the purpose of subsection (4), an individual seeking at any time in a year to hire to ride an undocked vehicle (called vehicle A) from a licensee may be treated by the licensee as an individual who persistently improperly parks vehicles in public places if, pursuant to an information sharing arrangement mentioned in subsection (1), the licensee reasonably believes the individual to have, upon ending any hiring of a vehicle from the licensee or another licensee, improperly parked in any public place a vehicle on at least 3 earlier occasions within the year —(a)

where any vehicle involved in the earlier occasions is of the same type as vehicle A or is of a prescribed class within which vehicle A falls; and

(b)

after disregarding all other occasions of improper parking in public places before that year.

(6) Despite subsection (5), if an individual is refused by a licensee under subsection (4) the hire or further hire of a vehicle, all occasions which counted towards that refusal must be disregarded for the purposes of subsequent determinations by any licensee as to whether that individual is or is not an individual who persistently improperly parks vehicles in public places.

(7) Regulations may be made to vary, for any year, the number of occasions mentioned in subsection (5).

—(1) A licensee providing a shared mobility service using a type of vehicles may enter into an information sharing arrangement with another licensee providing a shared mobility service using the same or different type of vehicles to share or exchange information held by the licensees for the purpose of subsection (4).

(2) Under an information sharing arrangement mentioned in subsection (1), each party to the arrangement, despite any other Act, is authorised —(a)

to request and receive information held by the other party to the arrangement; and

(b)

to disclose information to the other party,

but only to the extent that the information is reasonably necessary to assist in the exercise of any power under subsection (4).

(3) However, the information to which an information sharing arrangement mentioned in subsection (1) may relate is limited to the following:(a)

information concerning possible improper parking in public places by hirers of vehicles which were hired from licensees who are party to the arrangement;

(b)

information about hirers in respect of whom a power under subsection (4) has been exercised by any licensee which is party to the arrangement;

(c)

other information prescribed.

(4) Every licensee —(a)

is entitled to refuse to hire or further hire for a period not exceeding a prescribed period to any individual any undocked vehicle used by the licensee to provide a shared mobility service where the licensee has reasonable grounds to believe that the individual persistently improperly parks vehicles (whether or not hired from the same licensee) in public places; and

(b)

must refuse to hire or further hire to a particular individual for a period not exceeding a prescribed period any undocked vehicle used by the licensee to provide a shared mobility service, where directed by the LTA under section 25.

(5) For the purpose of subsection (4), an individual seeking at any time in a year to hire to ride an undocked vehicle (called vehicle A) from a licensee may be treated by the licensee as an individual who persistently improperly parks vehicles in public places if, pursuant to an information sharing arrangement mentioned in subsection (1), the licensee reasonably believes the individual to have, upon ending any hiring of a vehicle from the licensee or another licensee, improperly parked in any public place a vehicle on at least 3 earlier occasions within the year —(a)

where any vehicle involved in the earlier occasions is of the same type as vehicle A or is of a prescribed class within which vehicle A falls; and

(b)

after disregarding all other occasions of improper parking in public places before that year.

(6) Despite subsection (5), if an individual is refused by a licensee under subsection (4) the hire or further hire of a vehicle, all occasions which counted towards that refusal must be disregarded for the purposes of subsequent determinations by any licensee as to whether that individual is or is not an individual who persistently improperly parks vehicles in public places.

(7) Regulations may be made to vary, for any year, the number of occasions mentioned in subsection (5).