Crisis management powers before start of nomination proceedings
9.—(1) The Returning Officer may exercise any crisis management power in paragraph (2) if, at any time before the period for receiving nomination papers for an election in an electoral division, the Returning Officer is of the opinion that nomination proceedings are likely to be disrupted.
(2) The Returning Officer may, at any time before that period, specify one or more of the following matters:
(a)
another date (which must be no later than one month after the date of the writ) to be the day of nomination;
(b)
one or more locations to be the place or places of nomination;
(c)
other hours for nomination proceedings.
(3) If the Returning Officer exercises the crisis management power in paragraph (2)(c), the Returning Officer must specify all of the following matters:
(a)
a period of one hour for the Returning Officer to receive nomination papers;
(b)
a period of 90 minutes for the making of objections to any nomination paper;
(c)
the latest time before which a candidate —
(i)
must make a deposit under section 28 of the Act;
(ii)
may correct errors or omissions in the nomination papers under section 29A of the Act; and
(iii)
may withdraw his or her candidature under section 32 of the Act;
(d)
the time at which the nomination of a candidate who is the subject of multiple nominations described in section 32A of the Act is void;
(e)
the latest time before which a candidate may make an indication regarding his or her name to the Returning Officer under section 105(1) of the Act.
(4) The periods and times specified under paragraph (3) must comply with all of the following provisions:
(a)
the time specified under paragraph (3)(c) and (d) must not be earlier than the end of the period specified under paragraph (3)(a);
(b)
the time specified under paragraph (3)(c)(iii) must be the same as the time specified under paragraph (3)(d);
(c)
the time specified under paragraph (3)(e) must be the same as the time at which the period specified under paragraph (3)(b) ends;
(d)
nomination proceedings must be concluded in one day.
(5) The exercise of any crisis management power in this regulation does not affect references in the Act to the day of nomination for the purposes of —
(a)
section 27A of the Act and the regulations made under section 27C(9) of the Act (relating to the certificates issued by the Malay Community Committee and the Indian and Other Minority Communities Committee); or
(b)
any other thing done before the day of nomination.