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4 PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1. This Act is the Small Motorised Vehicles (Safety) Act 2020 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“authorised officer”, for any provision of this Act, means an individual who is appointed under section 17 as an authorised officer for the purposes of that provision;

“Authority” means the Land Transport Authority of Singapore constituted under the Land Transport Authority of Singapore Act (Cap. 158A);

“conveyance” includes any vessel, train, vehicle or aircraft in which persons or goods can be carried;

“customs territory” means any part of Singapore and her territorial waters but excludes any free trade zone;

“export”, in relation to any goods, means—
 * (a) to take or cause to be taken out of the customs territory by land, water or air to any place, including a free trade zone; or
 * (b) to place goods in any form of conveyance for the purpose of taking the goods out of the customs territory by land, water or air to any place, including a free trade zone,

but does not include the taking out from the customs territory of any goods in transit unless those goods have been landed or transhipped within the customs territory;

“free trade zone” means any area in Singapore declared to be a free trade zone under the Free Trade Zones Act (Cap. 114);