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Presidential Elections Act

(Chapter 240A)

Presidential Elections (Posters and Banners) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 60 of the Presidential Elections Act, the Prime Minister hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Presidential Elections (Posters and Banners) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into operation on 16th July 1999.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Presidential Elections (Posters and Banners) Regulations (Rg 3) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Display of posters and banners without permit prohibited

2. Subject to these Regulations, no person shall, between the nomination day and polling day of an election, display or cause to be displayed any poster or banner relating to any candidate in that election unless the person is authorised to do so under a permit issued under regulation 3.”.

Amendment of regulation 3

3. Regulation 3 (2) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the word “number” in paragraph (c) and substituting the words “maximum number”.

New regulation 4A

4. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 4, the following regulation:

“Other forms of display prohibited

4A.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person shall, between nomination day and polling day of an election, display or cause to be displayed any poster or banner relating to any candidate in that election or the contents of any such poster or banner —

(a)	by means of any television broadcast for reception by the public or any section thereof (whether on payment or otherwise);
(b)	by means of electronic transmissions on the Internet for immediate or future retrieval or access by the public or any section thereof (whether on payment or otherwise);
(c)	by exhibiting the poster or banner or its contents in, or in a manner so as to be visible from, any place to which the public (or any section thereof) have or are permitted to have access (whether on payment or otherwise); or
(d)	by publishing the poster or banner or its contents in any newspaper, magazine or periodical,

unless the person is authorised to do so by and does so in accordance with the directions of the Returning Officer.

(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prohibit the broadcast or publication (including publication on the Internet) of any item of news or current affairs which contains any reference to a poster or banner relating to a candidate or group of candidates in an election.”.

Deletion and substitution of regulations 6 and 7

5. Regulations 6 and 7 of the principal Regulations are deleted and the following regulations substituted therefor:

“Posters and banners to bear official stamp

6.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), no person shall display or cause to be displayed in any public place any poster or banner unless there is affixed to the poster or banner a stamp issued by the Returning Officer bearing his official mark.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the display of any poster or banner on the day and at the site of any election rally held by a candidate or group of candidates.

(3) Paragraph (1) shall also not apply to the display of any poster or banner or its contents by means of —

(a)	television broadcasting;
(b)	electronic transmissions on the Internet;
(c)	exhibiting a film or photograph of the poster or banner or its contents; or
(d)	publication in any newspaper, magazine or periodical.

Copy of poster or banner to be lodged with Returning Officer

7. No person shall display or cause to be displayed by any means any poster or banner unless —

(a)	a copy of the poster or a detailed diagram or drawing of the banner has previously been lodged with the Returning Officer by a candidate or any of his election agents; and
(b)	the person is in possession of a written authority to conduct election activity signed by a candidate or any of his election agents in accordance with section 65(2) of the Act.”.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 9

6. Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Posters and banners not to be displayed or pasted on certain objects or buildings

9. No person shall display or cause to be displayed any poster or banner by pasting or nailing it on —

(a)	any lamp post or traffic bollard;
(b)	any postal box or on any property belonging to the Public Utilities Board, the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore, any public electricity licensee, any public gas licensee, any public postal licensee or any public telecommunication licensee;
(c)	any area, space or building owned or occupied by the Land Transport Authority of Singapore for or in connection with any rapid transit system;
(d)	any painted wall or painted part of a building adjoining a road; or
(e)	any tree or structure on or along any road.”.

Amendment of regulation 14

7. Regulation 14 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or any member of his staff” in the 1st line and substituting the words “or any other person”.

Amendment of regulation 15

8. Regulation 15 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “any member of his staff” in paragraph (c) and substituting the words “any person authorised by him”.

Made this 15th day of July 1999.

EDDIE TEO

Permanent Secretary,
Prime Minister’s Office,
Singapore.

[EC(A)/4-7 Vol. 2; AG/LEG/SL/240A/99/1 Vol. 1]