Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 1/1991

Read the first time on 3rd January 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. This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Act 1991 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 2

2. Section 2 of the Parliamentary Elections Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended by deleting the words “3 candidates” in the definition of “group” and substituting the words “3 or 4 candidates”.

Amendment of section 8A

3. Section 8A of the principal Act is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the word “constituency” in subsection (1)(a), the words “and designate that constituency as a constituency in which any election is to be held on the basis of a group of 3 candidates, or on the basis of a group of 4 candidates”;
(b)	by deleting the words “the 3 candidates” in subsection (1)(b)(i) and (ii) and substituting in each case the words “the candidates”; and
(c)	by deleting the word “one-half” in the third line of subsection (2) and substituting the word “three-quarters”.

Amendment of section 22

4. Section 22 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:

“(2) Each group representation constituency shall return 3 or 4 Members to serve in Parliament as designated for that constituency by the President under section 8A(1)(a).”.

Amendment of section 27A

5. Section 27A of the principal Act is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “3 candidates” in subsections (2) and (3) and substituting in each case the words “3 or 4 candidates as designated for that constituency by the President under section 8A(1)(a)”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “the 3 candidates” in subsection (4)(a) and (b) and substituting in each case the words “the candidates”.

Amendment of section 27B

6. Section 27B(1) of the principal Act is amended by deleting the word “two” in the fourth line and substituting the word “the”.

Amendment of section 69

7. Section 69 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (1A) and substituting the following subsection:

“(1A) In relation to a candidate at an election in any group representation constituency, the reference to 50 cents for each elector on the register in subsection (1) shall be read as a reference to 50 cents for each elector based on —

(a)	one-third of the number of electors on the register for that constituency where the group is a group of 3 candidates; or
(b)	one-quarter of the number of electors on the register for that constituency where the group is a group of 4 candidates.”.

Amendment of section 95

8. Section 95(2) of the principal Act is amended by deleting the word “two” in the fourth line.

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