Active Mobility (Amendment No. 2) Bill
Ministry of TransportBill Summary
Purpose: To shorten the forfeiture process for seized devices assessed as dangerous and to expand the public path network to include certain open spaces, ensuring active mobility devices can be used safely by a wide range of users.
Key Concerns raised by MPs: While specific concerns were not detailed in this transcript, Senior Minister of State for Transport Dr Lam Pin Min noted that Members of Parliament had already expressed their views and raised questions during an earlier debate on the related Small Motorised Vehicles (Safety) Bill.
Responses: Senior Minister of State for Transport Dr Lam Pin Min explained that the amendments support the vision of active mobility as a safe and sustainable mode of transport and noted that justifications for the changes had been provided during the preceding debate on the Small Motorised Vehicles (Safety) Bill.
Members Involved
Transcripts
First Reading (4 May 2020)
"to amend the Active Mobility Act 2017 (Act 3 of 2017) to deal with public paths and seized personal mobility devices and other vehicles and to make a similar related amendment to the Road Traffic Act (Chapter 276 of the 2004 Revised Edition)",
presented by the Senior Minister of State for Transport (Dr Lam Pin Min) on behalf of the Minister for Transport; read the First time; to be read a Second time on the next available Sitting of Parliament, and to be printed.
Second Reading (26 May 2020)
3.25 pm
The Senior Minister of State for Transport (Dr Lam Pin Min) (for the Minister for Transport): Mr Speaker, on behalf of the Minister for Transport, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
The Active Mobility (Amendment No. 2) Bill 2020 amends the Active Mobility Act to shorten the forfeiture process for seized devices which LTA has assessed to be dangerous and to expand the public path network to include certain open spaces so that our public path network can accommodate the largest range of users and active mobility devices can be used safely in accordance with our regulations.
This Bill, as with the previous Bill on our Order Paper, the Small Motorised Vehicles (Safety) Bill, supports our vision of active mobility as a safe and sustainable mode of transport for Singaporeans. In the debate, we have just had on the Small Motorised Vehicles Bill, I have already explained the amendments proposed in both Bills. Members have already raised their questions and expressed their views on both Bills during the earlier debate, although they are still welcome to do so now if there are any additional questions or views. Mr Speaker, I beg to move.
Question put, and agreed to.
Bill accordingly read a Second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House.
The House immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill. – [Dr Lam Pin Min].
Bill considered in Committee; reported without amendment; read a Third time and passed.