Small Motorised Vehicles (Safety) Regulations 2021

Small Motorised Vehicles (Safety) Act 2020

(Section 27)

Small Motorised Vehicles (Safety)
Regulations 2021

2025 REVISED EDITION

(2 June 2025)

[28 June 2021]

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1.  These Regulations are the Small Motorised Vehicles (Safety) Regulations 2021.

Definitions

2.  In these Regulations —

“applicant” means the person who makes an application for import approval to the Authority, or the person on whose behalf an application for import approval is made by an agent;

“application for import approval” means an application for an import approval to import one or more small motorised vehicles specified or described in the import approval;

“contact address” means the address of —

(a) for a partnership (other than a limited liability partnership), the partnership’s principal place of business in Singapore;

(b) for a body corporate, the body corporate’s registered office or principal office in Singapore;

(c) for an unincorporated association, the unincorporated association’s principal office in Singapore;

(d) for an individual carrying on business as a sole proprietor, the principal place of business in Singapore; or

(e) for any other individual, the individual’s place of residence or workplace in Singapore;

“distinguishing mark”, for a small motorised vehicle, means a sign, mark or label used to distinguish the small motorised vehicle as a non‑compliant small motorised vehicle;

“entity” means a body corporate (including a limited liability partnership), corporation, partnership or an unincorporated association;

“holder”, for an import approval, means the person to whom an import approval is granted;

“non‑compliant small motorised vehicle” means any of the following small motorised vehicles:

(a) a non‑compliant personal mobility device, the construction, weight or accessories of which do not comply with the requirements as to construction, weight and accessories prescribed under the Active Mobility Act 2017 either for all personal mobility devices generally or for the particular type of that personal mobility device;

(b) a non‑compliant power‑assisted bicycle, the construction, weight or accessories of which do not comply with the requirements as to construction, weight and accessories prescribed under the Road Traffic Act 1961 either for all power‑assisted bicycles generally or for the particular type of that power‑assisted bicycle;

“officer”, in relation to an entity, means —

(a) where the entity is a body corporate (including a limited liability partnership) —

(i) an individual for the time being holding the office of chairperson, director, partner, chief executive officer, manager or company secretary (as the case may be) of the body or any position analogous to any of those offices; or

(ii) for a corporation whose affairs are managed by its members, any of those members as if the member were a director of the corporation;

(b) where the entity is a partnership (including a limited partnership), a partner of the partnership; or

(c) where the entity is an unincorporated association (other than a partnership), an individual for the time being holding the office of president, secretary or member (as the case may be) of the committee of the unincorporated association, or any position analogous to any of those offices,

and includes any person carrying out the duties of any such office referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) if the office is vacant;

“permissible purpose” has the meaning given by regulation 8(4);

“re‑export” means to export any thing that has previously been imported;

“working day” means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday.