Presidential Elections Act

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3 Appointment of Returning Officer and Assistant Returning Officers

4 Appointment of clerks and interpreters

5 Appointment of acting Returning Officer

6 Timing of poll and writ of election

7 Notice of time and place of election

7A Failure of election

8 Certificate of eligibility

8A Immunity of Presidential Elections Committee

10 Deposits by candidates

11 Proceedings on nomination day

11A Amendment of nomination papers

12 Objections to nomination papers

13 Withdrawal of candidature

14 Persons entitled to be present during nomination proceedings

15 Uncontested elections

16 Contested elections

17 Polling day to be public holiday

18 Polling districts and polling stations

19 Presiding officers

20 Facilities to be provided at polling stations

21 Register of electors to be conclusive evidence of right to vote

22 Admittance to polling station

22A Voting by overseas electors

23 Poll by ballot and ballot papers

26 Compulsory voting

27 Declarations by voters

28 Spoilt ballot papers

31 Procedure on closing of poll

31A Counting at counting places

32A Counting of votes by overseas electors

32B Recounting of votes

33 Votes to be rejected

33A Approval of DRE voting systems

33B Approval of DRE voting machines and equipment

33C Pre-poll testing of DRE voting system, etc.

33D DRE voting system procedures generally

34 Publication of result and statement of poll in the Gazette

35 Failure to comply with provisions of this Act

36 Maintenance of secrecy at elections

36A Postponement of nomination day, etc.

36B Change in hours for nomination of candidates, etc.

36C Adjournment, etc., of polling

36D Voting at adjourned polling

36E Adjournment, etc., of counting

36F Adjournment, etc., of adding of counted votes

42 Punishment for corrupt practice

43 Nomination of election agents

44 Person convicted of corrupt practice not to be appointed election agent

45 Making of contracts through election agent

46 Payment of expenses through election agent

47 Period for sending in claims and making payments for election expenses

48 Remuneration of election agent

49 Personal expenses of candidate and petty expenses

50 Expenses in excess of maximum to be illegal practice

51 Certain expenditure to be illegal practice

53 Use of motor vehicles at elections

54 Certain employment to be illegal

55 Saving for creditors

56 Return and declaration respecting election expenses

57 Publication of receipt of return, etc.

58 Employers to allow employees reasonable period for voting

59 Badges, symbols, etc., prohibited on polling day and eve of polling day

60 Regulations for display of posters and banners

60A Election advertising ban

61 Punishment for conviction for illegal practice

62 Prohibition of canvassing on polling day and eve of polling day

62A Restrictions on election meetings

63 Prohibition of dissuasion from voting

64 Undue influence at or near polling station

65 Persons prohibited from conducting election activity

66 Unlawful assembly

67 Offence to operate loudspeaker

68 Report exonerating candidate in certain cases of corrupt and illegal practice by agents

69 Power of Election Judge to except innocent act from being illegal practice, etc.

70 Authorised excuse for non-compliance with provisions as to return and declaration respecting election expenses

71 Application for avoidance of election on certain grounds

72 Powers of Election Judge

73 Who may make application under section 71

74 Relief which may be claimed

75 Certificate of Election Judge as to validity of election

76 Report of Election Judge as to corrupt or illegal practice

77 Time for making application

78 Prohibition of disclosure of vote

79 Votes to be struck off at a scrutiny

80 Rejection of ballot paper by Returning Officer not to be questioned

82 Inaccurate description of persons and places

83 Publication of notices, etc.

84 Composition of offences

Deposits by candidates

10.—(1) A candidate, or some person on his behalf, shall deposit or cause to be deposited with the Returning Officer, or with some person authorised by the Returning Officer in that behalf, between the date of the issue of the writ under section 6 and 12 noon of nomination day, a sum equal to 3 times the amount of deposit referred to in section 28(1) of the Parliamentary Elections Act (Cap. 218).

(1A) In default of a deposit under this section being so made, the candidate shall be deemed to have withdrawn his candidature under section 13.

(2) The Returning Officer shall immediately give a receipt for any sum deposited under this section and shall pay that sum into the Treasury and that sum shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

(3) Any sum required to be deposited under subsection (1) shall be paid in legal tender or by a bank draft or a certified cheque.

(4) If a candidate is not nominated as a candidate for election, an election has wholly failed or if, after the deposit under this section is made, the candidate withdraws his candidature under section 13, the deposit shall be returned to the person by whom the deposit was made.

[11/2010]

(4A) If the candidate dies after the deposit is made and before the poll has commenced, the deposit, if made by him, shall be returned to his legal personal representative or, if not made by him, shall be returned to the person by whom the deposit was made.

(5) If a candidate who has made the required deposit is not elected and the number of votes polled by him does not exceed one-eighth of the total number of votes polled, the amount deposited shall be forfeited and paid into the Consolidated Fund.

(5A) In any other case, the amount so deposited shall be returned to the candidate —

(a)	where the candidate is elected, as soon as he has taken the oath or made affirmation as President; and
(b)	where the candidate is not elected, as soon as practicable after the result of the election is declared.

(6) For the purposes of this section —

(a)	the number of votes polled shall be deemed to be the number of votes counted other than rejected votes; and
(b)	“certified cheque” means a cheque which is certified by the drawee bank as good for payment of the sum stated in the cheque.

(7) The Returning Officer shall, on giving notice under section 7 of the issue of a writ, specify in the notice the amount to be deposited under subsection (1).

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