Supplementary provisions if counting adjourned and postponed
24.—(1) This regulation applies if the counting of votes cast in Singapore at a counting place is adjourned and postponed under regulation 22.
(2) The Returning Officer must announce the adjournment and postponement of counting to persons present at the affected counting place.
(3) The counting of votes at the affected counting place must stop immediately.
(4) The Returning Officer must secure the counting material at the affected counting place in the presence of the candidates and their counting agents who are in attendance by —
(a)
making up the counting material into separate packets; and
(b)
sealing each packet with —
(i)
the seal of the Returning Officer; and
(ii)
the seals of the candidates and their counting agents who wish to affix their seals.
(5) The Returning Officer must hold the secured counting material in safe custody (whether at the affected counting place or any other location) while the counting stands adjourned.
(6) Immediately before the counting of votes resumes, the Returning Officer must —
(a)
if the secured counting material is not held at the location for the resumed count, deliver the secured counting material to that location; and
(b)
in the presence of the candidates and their counting agents who are in attendance, retrieve the counting material from the means by which it is secured.
(7) The resumed count must be conducted as nearly as possible in accordance with the Act.