Parliamentary Elections (Registration of Overseas Electors) Regulations 2001

No. S 463

Parliamentary Elections Act

(Chapter 218)

Parliamentary Elections (Registration of Overseas Electors) Regulations 2001

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 102 of the Parliamentary Elections Act, the Prime Minister hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Registration of Overseas Electors) Regulations 2001 and shall come into operation on 26th September 2001.

Overseas registration centres

2. Where the Registration Officer has established any overseas registration centre under section 10(4) of the Act, he shall cause a notice of that fact and the address of the overseas registration centre to be published in such manner and in such media as he considers fit.

Inspection of register at overseas registration centre

3. Any person who wishes to inspect any register of electors at an overseas registration centre shall apply to the officer in charge of the register at that overseas registration centre.

Application to be registered as overseas elector

4.—(1) An application under section 13A of the Act to be registered as an overseas elector for any electoral division must —

(a)

be in the Form in the Schedule; and

(b)

be made —

(i)	in person in accordance with regulation 5(1); or
(ii)	by post in accordance with regulation 5(2).

(2) Every application to be registered as an overseas elector for any electoral division must —

(a)	state the precise ground specified in section 13A (1)(a) or (b)(i) to (vi) of the Act on which the applicant claims to be entitled to be registered as an overseas elector;
(b)	state the overseas polling station at which the applicant wishes to vote at the next election; and
(c)	be accompanied by a duly completed declaration in Part VI of the Form in the Schedule.

Mode of application

5.—(1) An application in person to be registered as an overseas elector for any electoral division may be made by lodging a duly completed Form in the Schedule —

(a)	at the office of the Registration Officer in Singapore;
(b)	at any overseas registration centre; or
(c)	at any place specified in the notice under section 10(3) or 15(2) of the Act of the completion of the register or (as the case may be) revised register of electors for that electoral division,

not later than 21 days after the date of publication in the Gazette of that notice.

(2) An application by post to be registered as an overseas elector for any electoral division may be made by sending a duly completed Form in the Schedule by registered post —

(a)	addressed to the office of the Registration Officer in Singapore or to any overseas registration centre; and
(b)	posted not later than 21 days after the date of publication in the Gazette of the notice under section 10(3) or 15(2) of the Act of the completion of the register or (as the case may be) revised register of electors for that electoral division.

(3) The Registration Officer may reject any application to be registered as an overseas elector if —

(a)	the application is incomplete or not made in accordance with these Regulations; or
(b)	the applicant, upon a request to furnish such additional information as the Registration Officer may require under section 13A(2) of the Act, fails to comply with the Registration Officer’s request.

(4) Paragraph (3) shall apply without prejudice to any other ground on which the Registration Officer may refuse to register any person as an overseas elector.

Duty to inform

6. As soon as practicable after the Registration Officer —

(a)	registers any person as an overseas elector for any electoral division and allots him to vote at any overseas polling station; or
(b)	rejects any application to be registered as an overseas elector,

the Registration Officer shall inform the person of that fact.

Penalty for false application

7. Any person who wilfully makes a false statement or declaration in any application to be registered as an overseas elector shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100.

Made this 24th day of September 2001.

EDDIE TEO CHAN SENG

Permanent Secretary,
Prime Minister’s Office,
Singapore.

[EC(A)/4-24 Vol. 2; AG/LEG/SL/218/2001/1 Vol. 1]

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