NEA offering scheme to stave off imminent ban on older motorcycles

Owners of motorbikes registered before 2003 will be allowed to keep their machines in a so-called "collector's scheme". ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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SINGAPORE - More than four years after it announced that older motorcycles would be banned from 2028, the National Environment Agency (NEA) is offering owners a compromise.

The agency will allow owners of motorbikes registered between 1993 and 2003 to keep their machines in a so-called "collector's scheme" until they are old enough to go under the classic vehicle scheme.

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