Presidential Elections (Crisis Management) Regulations 2023

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1 Citation and commencement

3 When is a stage of an election disrupted or likely to be disrupted

4 Crisis management powers must be exercised by Returning Officer personally

5 Successive exercise of crisis management powers

6 Modification of Act if crisis management powers exercised

7 Exercise of crisis management powers must be publicised

8 Directions to presiding officers

9 Crisis management powers before start of nomination proceedings

10 Crisis management powers during nomination proceedings

11 Crisis management power before start of polling

12 Crisis management powers in relation to particular polling stations

13 Supplementary provisions if poll temporarily suspended

14 Supplementary provisions if poll adjourned and postponed

15 Supplementary provisions if poll abandoned and restarted

16 Supplementary provisions if poll closed early

17 Supplementary provisions if poll wholly abandoned

18 Modifications of references to polling day in Act

19 Crisis management power if arrival of overseas votes delayed

20 Crisis management response if ballot box lost or destroyed after close of poll

21 Supplementary provisions for regulation 20

22 Crisis management powers in relation to counting

23 Supplementary provisions if counting temporarily suspended

24 Supplementary provisions if counting adjourned and postponed

25 Supplementary provisions if counting wholly abandoned

26 Application to pre‑count examination of postal voting papers

27 Crisis management powers in relation to adding of counted votes

28 Supplementary provisions if adding temporarily suspended

29 Supplementary provisions if adding adjourned and postponed

No. S 471

Presidential Elections Act 1991

Presidential Elections
(Crisis Management) Regulations 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 81A of the Presidential Elections Act 1991, the Prime Minister makes the following Regulations:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Presidential Elections (Crisis Management) Regulations 2023 and come into operation on 1 July 2023.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations —

“adding material” means records of counting and all other documents relating to the addition of votes;

“counting material”, in relation to a counting place, means all ballot papers (counted or uncounted) despatched to that counting place and all other documents relating to the counting of votes at that counting place;

“disrupted” has the meaning given by regulation 3;

“overseas vote” means a vote cast at an overseas polling station or by the postal voting method;

“presiding officer”, in relation to a polling station, means any presiding officer for the polling station;

“stage of an election” means —

(a)	the nomination proceedings;
(b)	polling;
(c)	the counting of votes (whether cast in a polling station or by the postal voting method); or
(d)	the adding of counted votes;

“voting material” means —

(a)	the unused and spoilt ballot papers;
(b)	the copies of the register of electors;
(c)	the counterfoils of the ballot papers; and
(d)	the tendered votes list.

When is a stage of an election disrupted or likely to be disrupted

3.—(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, a stage of an election is disrupted or likely to be disrupted if a disruptive event —

(a)	has occurred or is likely to occur before or during that stage of the election; or
(b)	prevents or seriously interrupts, or is likely to prevent or seriously interrupt, the conduct of that stage of the election according to the provisions of the Act.

(2) In paragraph (1), “disruptive event” has the meaning given by section 81A(7) of the Act.

Made on 28 June 2023.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Prime Minister’s Office,
Singapore.

[ELD(A)/4-15 Pt. 1; AG/LEGIS/SL/240A/2020/12 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 81B(1) of the Presidential Elections Act 1991).

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