Parliamentary Elections (Amendment No. 2) Act 1991

REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

ACTS SUPPLEMENT

Published by Authority

NO. 25]

Friday, August 2

[1991

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 28th June 1991 and assented to by the President on 24th July 1991:—

Parliamentary Elections (Amendment No. 2) Act 1991

(No. 21 of 1991)

I assent.

YONG PUNG HOW

Person appointed
to exercise
the functions of the President.

24th July 1991.

Date of Commencement: 2nd August 1991

Date of Commencement: 14th December 1991

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Elections Act (Chapter 218 of the 1989 Revised Edition).

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

Short title and commencement

1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Amendment No. 2) Act 1991 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

(2) The Minister may appoint different dates for the coming into operation of the different provisions of this Act.

Amendment of section 52

2. Section 52 of the Parliamentary Elections Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended —

(a)

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:

“(1) At any general election the number of non-constituency Members to be declared elected shall be 3 (or such greater number not exceeding 6 as the President may by order specify for the purpose of that general election) less the total number of Opposition Members elected to Parliament in accordance with section 49(7).

(1A) Where any order is to be made under subsection (1), such order shall be made at any time after Parliament is dissolved but not later than the day of nomination for a general election following the dissolution; and the order shall cease to have effect at the next dissolution of Parliament.”;

(b)

by deleting the words “Where subsection (1) applies” in the first line of subsection (3) and substituting the words “Where any non-constituency Member is to be declared elected under this section”; and

(c)

by deleting the words “elected as a non-constituency Member” in the fourth and fifth lines of subsection (3) and substituting the words “so elected”.

Amendment of section 69

3. Section 69 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “$6,000 or of an amount equal to 50 cents for each elector on the register, whichever amount shall be the larger” in the sixth, seventh and eighth lines of subsection (1) and substituting the words “the amount determined in accordance with the Third Schedule”;

(b)

by deleting subsection (1A); and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsections:

“(3) The Minister may by order amend the Third Schedule; and every such order shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.

(4) Where a writ of election has been issued under section 24 for an election in any electoral division, no order under subsection (3) shall be made until after the day of nomination or, if a poll is to be taken, until after polling day of that election.”.

Amendment of section 74

4. Section 74 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsection:

“(3A) Where a candidate or an election agent fails to transmit the return respecting election expenses and the statement referred to in subsection (2) before the expiration of the time limited for the purpose and in the manner required by this Act, the candidate or election agent shall not be qualified to be elected as President.”.

Amendment of section 100

5. Section 100 (2) of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words “Third Schedule” and substituting the words “Fourth Schedule”.

New Third Schedule

6. The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after the Second Schedule, the following Schedule:

“THIRD SCHEDULE

Section 69(1).

Election Expenses

The maximum amount which a candidate at an election or his election agent can pay or incur on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the election shall be —

(a)

in relation to a candidate at an election in any group representation constituency — $12,000 or an amount equal to —

(i)	$1 for each elector based on one-third of the number of electors on the register for that constituency if the group is a group of 3 candidates; or
(ii)	$1 for each elector based on one-quarter of the number of electors on the register for that constituency if the group is a group of 4 candidates,

whichever amount is the greater; or

(b)

in relation to any other candidate — $12,000 or an amount equal to $1 for each elector on the register, whichever amount is the greater.”.

Amendment of Third Schedule

7. The Third Schedule to the principal Act is amended by deleting the word “THIRD” in the first line and substituting the word “FOURTH”.

Miscellaneous amendments

8. The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “of being elected” wherever they appear in the following sections, in each case the words “as the President or”:

Sections 55(1) (lines 45 and 46), 61(2) (line 4) and 79(1) (line 6).

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