Parliamentary Elections (Names and Polling Districts of Electoral Divisions) Notification

Parliamentary Elections Act

(Chapter 218, Sections 8 and 20A)

Parliamentary Elections (Names and Polling Districts of Electoral Divisions) Notification¹

¹Replaces N 1, 1990 Ed (S 144/88).

N 1

G.N. No. S 493/1996

REVISED EDITION 1997

(15th June 1997)

[22nd November 1996]

Citation

1. This Notification may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Names and Polling Districts of Electoral Divisions) Notification.

Names of electoral divisions

2.—(1) The names of the electoral divisions of Singapore for the purposes of the next general election and any election thereafter under the Act shall be as specified in the first column of the Schedule.

(2) The existing polling districts specified in the second column of the Schedule opposite each electoral division are retained, redistributed or transferred, as the case may be, to form subdivisions of that electoral division.

(3) The new distinguishing letters assigned to the existing polling districts are as specified in the third column of the Schedule.

Meaning of existing polling district

3. In this Notification, an existing polling district of any distinguishing letter means the polling district assigned with that distinguishing letter and described in one of the following Notifications, being the latest Notification relating to that polling district:

(a)	Notification No. 1866 published in the GazetteExtraordinary on 15th June 1988;
(b)	Notification No. 3343 published in the GazetteExtraordinary on 12th August 1991;
(c)	Notification No. 2154 published in the Gazette on 12th June 1992; or
(d)	Notification No. 1391 publishd in the Gazette on 3rd May 1996.

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