Parking Places (Claims Against Forfeiture) Rules 2019

No. S 11

Parking Places Act

(CHAPTER 214)

Parking Places
(Claims Against Forfeiture)
Rules 2019

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22 of the Parking Places Act, the Land Transport Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules are the Parking Places (Claims Against Forfeiture) Rules 2019 and come into operation on 3 January 2019.

How to make claim

2.  For the purposes of section 15(5B) of the Act, a claim in respect of a vehicle removed to a place of safety or any other place must be made in one of the following ways:

(a) by post addressed to the Land Transport Authority of Singapore at 10 Sin Ming Drive, Singapore 575701;

(b) online at http://www.lta.gov.sg;

(c) by email addressed to [email protected].

Information that must accompany claim

3.—(1)  For the purposes of section 15(5B) of the Act, a claim in respect of a vehicle removed to a place of safety or any other place must be accompanied by —

(a) documents which evidence the means by which the vehicle came into the ownership, or under the lawful possession, of the claimant before the vehicle was removed; and

(b) any other information specified by the Authority to decide on the particular claim.

(2)  A document mentioned in paragraph (1) may be —

(a) provided in electronic form or in hardcopy; and

(b) an original document or a legible copy of the original document.

(3)  Where a document mentioned in paragraph (1) is provided in the form of a copy (electronic or otherwise), the Authority may request the claimant to show the Authority the original document.

Incomplete or non-compliant claim

4.  The Authority may refuse to consider a claim that is incomplete or not made in accordance with these Rules.

Made on 2 January 2019.

CHAN HENG LOON ALAN

Chairman,
Land Transport Authority of Singapore.

[LTA/L18.033.002/DVT/FH/AMR1; AG/LEGIS/SL/214/2015/20 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 22(3) of the Parking Places Act).