Parliamentary Elections (Amendment No. 2) Act 1988

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Published in Acts Supplement
on 30 Jul 1988

REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

ACTS SUPPLEMENT

Published by Authority

NO. 12]

Saturday, July 30

[1988

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 28th June 1988 and assented to by the President on 20th July 1988:—

Parliamentary Elections (Amendment No. 2) Act 1988

(No. 11 of 1988)

I assent.

WEE KIM WEE

President.

20th July 1988.

Date of Commencement: 30th July 1988

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Elections Act (Chapter 218 of the Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Amendment No. 2) Act 1988.

Amendment of section 28

2. Section 28 of the Parliamentary Elections Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “the sum of $1,500” in the sixth line of subsection (1) and substituting the words “a sum equal to 8% of the total allowances payable to a Member of Parliament in the preceding calendar year, rounded to the nearest $500”; and

(b)

by deleting subsection (7) and substituting the following subsection:

“(7) The Returning Officer shall, on giving notice under section 25 of the issue of a writ, specify in such notice the amount to be deposited under subsection (1).”.

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