2.—(1) The Road Traffic (Electronic Road Pricing System) Rules 2015 (G.N. No. S 226/2015) (except rules 3, 4 and 7(1)(a) to (e) of, and the Second Schedule to, those Rules) do not apply to the following vehicles:| (a) | authorised ambulances; [S 1064/2021 wef 03/01/2022] | | (b) | fire engines; | | (ba) | authorised medical transport vehicles; [S 1064/2021 wef 03/01/2022] | | (c) | police vehicles; | | (d) | any motor vehicle operated by the Singapore Civil Defence Force for use in a civil defence emergency (as defined in section 2 of the Civil Defence Act (Cap. 42)); | | (e) | any vehicle being towed by another vehicle. |
[S 1064/2021 wef 03/01/2022] (2) In this paragraph —“ambulance” means a motor vehicle that is specifically equipped for —| (a) | the transport on roads of; and | | (b) | the provision, during such transport, of out-of-hospital clinical care to, |
| sick or injured individuals who require emergency medical treatment; |
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“authorised”, for an ambulance or medical transport vehicle, means —| (a) | being specified in a licence (other than a revoked licence) under the Healthcare Services Act 2020 authorising the use of the ambulance or medical transport vehicle (as the case may be) to provide a licensable healthcare service specified in that licence; or | | (b) | being owned by the Government and used for the purposes of the Singapore Armed Forces or the Singapore Civil Defence Force; |
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| “medical transport vehicle” means a motor vehicle that is equipped to provide non-emergency patient transport services; |
“non-emergency patient transport services” means transport services for fee or reward that relate solely to the provision of transport on roads of individuals —| (a) | whose medical needs have been assessed as requiring patient transport and not being time-critical or acute; and | | (b) | who may require basic care and observation or clinical care and monitoring during transport. |
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