Rapid Transit Systems Act 1995 2020 REVISED EDITION This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021 An Act to provide for the planning, construction, operation and maintenance of rapid transit systems and the control of entities providing essential transport services and their equity interest holders. [Act 20 of 2024 wef 01/04/2025] [1 September 1995] PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title 1. This Act is the Rapid Transit Systems Act 1995. Interpretation 2. In this Act — “Authority” means the Land Transport Authority of Singapore established under the Land Transport Authority of Singapore Act 1995; “business trust” and “trustee-manager” have the meanings given by section 2 of the Business Trusts Act 2004; [Act 20 of 2024 wef 01/04/2025] “competent authority” means the competent authority appointed under section 5 of the Planning Act 1998 in respect of the development of land; “construction”, in relation to a railway, includes — (a) the reconstruction or realignment of the railway; (b) permanently improving the railway or otherwise bringing it to a higher standard, and any associated investigative and engineering studies, but does not include the planning, maintenance and management of the railway; [Deleted by Act 20 of 2024 wef 01/04/2025] “corporation” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Companies Act 1967; [Act 20 of 2024 wef 01/04/2025] “designated entity” means a designated equity interest holder or a designated operating entity; [Act 20 of 2024 wef 01/04/2025] “designated equity interest holder” means an entity that has been designated as a designated equity interest holder under section 21E; [Act 20 of 2024 wef 01/04/2025] “designated operating entity” means an entity that has been designated as a designated operating entity under section 21E; [Act 20 of 2024 wef 01/04/2025] “effective designation date”, in relation to a designated entity, means the date specified under section 21E(3) as the date on which the designation of that entity as a designated operating entity or designated equity interest holder (as the case may be) takes effect; [Act 20 of 2024 wef 01/04/2025] “entity” means any sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation or other body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, and includes a business trust; [Act 20 of 2024 wef 01/04/2025] “essential transport service” means — (a) the service of operating or maintaining any rapid transit system; or (b) any service specified or described in the Schedule which is necessary — (i) for the continuity of; or (ii) for supporting, the operation of any rapid transit system; [Act 20 of 2024 wef 01/04/2025] “land” includes and may, where the context so requires, have any one or more of the following meanings separately: (a) land of any tenure and so much of the airspace above the surface as may be reasonably used or enjoyed by any owner thereof, and so much of the subterranean space below the surface as is reasonably necessary for the use and enjoyment of the land, whether or not held apart from the surface; (b) the whole or part of any building or other erection or fixture on land; (c) where an undivided share of a leasehold interest in land has appurtenant to it rights to the exclusive use and occupation of a building or part thereof on such land, such share in the land and all rights appurtenant thereto; (d) any other estate, right, share or interest in land; “licensee” means a company which is licensed under this Act to operate any rapid transit system; “maintenance” includes the detection and rectification of any faults; “outsourced enforcement officer”, in relation to any provision of this Act or regulations made under this Act, means an individual who — (a) is appointed under section 11 of the Land Transport Authority of Singapore Act 1995; (b) is authorised by or under that Act to exercise any powers under any provision of this Act or regulations made under this Act, as the case may be; and (c) is acting within that authorisation; “railway” means a network or system of fixed horizontal rails, tracks, grooves or other guide-ways on, under or above the ground along which a train moves or runs, and includes all tunnels, viaducts, bridges, crossings, stabling yards, depots, stations and other infrastructures constructed or intended to be constructed for any railway and any extensions thereto; “railway area” means the land delineated as such in plans and maps prepared under section 3(1) or (3); “railway commuter facility” means — (a) a pedestrian facility (such as ramps, overhead bridges, footpaths, escalators, stairs and lifts) for or connected or facilitating access to the railway comprised in any rapid transit system; (b) a bicycle parking facility or vehicle set down facility for intending passengers of the railway comprised in any rapid transit system; or (c) any other similar structure or facility that integrates a rapid transit system with developments surrounding the rapid transit system by facilitating better access for passengers to residences, employment, markets, services and recreation; “railway premises” means any area, space or building owned or occupied by the Authority which is designed, equipped or set apart for the carriage of passengers by train or for affording facilities incidental to the carriage of passengers by train (but not any railway commuter facility unless expressly included) and includes any train on such premises; “rapid transit system” means any railway line, or a combination of 2 or more railway lines, and any part thereof comprised in that line or those lines set up or intended to be set up under this Act to meet the transport requirements of the public and includes the Mass Rapid Transit system set up under the repealed Act; “repealed Act” means the repealed Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Act (Cap. 172, 1988 Revised Edition); “train” includes a carriage, tram, car or other vehicle for the carriage of passengers on a railway. 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