ROAD VEHICLES (SPECIAL POWERS) (AMENDMENT) BILL

Order for Second Reading read.

3.00 p.m.

The Minister for Health and Home Affairs (Mr Chua Sian Chin): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."

This Bill seeks to amend the Road Vehicles (Special Powers) Act (Chapter 120 of the Revised Edition) to enable the Court to order forfeiture of vehicles used in the commission of offences such as assisting in carrying on a public lottery, and writing, printing or publishing any lottery ticket.

Prior to the passing of the Common Gaming Houses (Amendment) Act, 1971 (No. 25 of 1971), these offences were embodied in paragraphs (c) and (f) of subsection (1) of section 4 of the Common Gaming Houses Act (Chapter 96 of the Revised Edition). By the passing of the Common Gaming Houses (Amendment) Act, 1971, these provivisions are now embodied in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 4A and in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 4 of that Act.

The Schedule to the Road Vehicles (Special Powers) Act (Chapter 120 of the Revised Edition) sets out the offences where the Court has power to order forfeiture of vehicles used in their commission. This Bill seeks to make the necessary consequential amendments to that Schedule by substituting the references to the repealed provisions of the Common Gaming Houses Act with references to the existing provisions of that Act.

Mr Speaker, Sir 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.-[Mr Chua Sian Chin].

Bill considered in Committee; reported without amendment; read a Third time and passed.