Parliamentary Elections (Overseas Voting) Regulations 2024

No. S 449

Parliamentary Elections Act 1954

Parliamentary Elections
(Overseas Voting) Regulations 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 56F of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954, the Prime Minister makes the following Regulations:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Parliamentary Elections (Overseas Voting) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 14 June 2024.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations —

“certified register of electors” means a register of electors certified under section 20 of the Act and in operation at the time of the election and includes a composite register prepared under section 20A of the Act;

“counting place for overseas votes” means the place or places directed by the Returning Officer under section 56D(1) of the Act;

“independent candidate” means a candidate who is not a candidate for a political party;

“list of overseas electors”, in relation to an overseas polling station, means a list prepared under regulation 10 for that overseas polling station;

“notice of contested election”, in relation to an electoral division, means the notice published under section 34(6) or 34A(6) of the Act (as the case may be) in relation to that electoral division;

“overseas correspondence address”, in relation to a postal elector, means the overseas correspondence address of the postal elector provided to the Registration Officer under regulation 5(1) or 8 of the Parliamentary Elections (Registration of Overseas Electors) Regulations 2023 (G.N. No. S 319/2023);

“overseas election officer”, in relation to an overseas polling station, means —

(a)	an Assistant Returning Officer assigned to that overseas polling station under regulation 4;
(b)	a presiding officer assigned to that overseas polling station under regulation 5;
(c)	a clerk, interpreter, information officer or other officer authorised by the Returning Officer or Assistant Returning Officer to perform duties in connection with the conduct of a poll at that overseas polling station; or
(d)	any person appointed by an Assistant Returning Officer or a presiding officer under regulation 4(2)(b) or 5(3)(b) (as the case may be) to act for that Assistant Returning Officer or presiding officer at that overseas polling station,

but does not include any candidate or any election agent or polling agent of a candidate;

“postal elector” means an overseas elector who is designated under section 13A(3A) of the Act as a postal voter for an election;

“presiding officer” includes a senior presiding officer and an Assistant Returning Officer who presides at an overseas polling station;

“Singpass” means the identity authentication service known as Singapore Personal Access, by which an individual authenticates his or her identity in order to carry out an online transaction with the Government or a public authority;

“Singpass credential” means any username, password or 2‑factor authentication detail required to authenticate, using Singpass, the identity of an individual.

Made on 30 May 2024.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Prime Minister’s Office,
Singapore.

[ELD(A)/4-9; AG/LEGIS/SL/218/2020/11 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 102B(1) of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954).

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