Presidential Elections (Elections Advertising) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 20 Jan 2025

No. S 52

Presidential Elections Act 1991

Presidential Elections
(Elections Advertising)
(Amendment) Regulations 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 42Q of the Presidential Elections Act 1991, the Prime Minister makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Presidential Elections (Elections Advertising) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 and come into operation on 22 January 2025.

New regulation 17

2. In the Presidential Elections (Election Advertising) Regulations 2023 (G.N. No. S 470/2023), after regulation 16, insert —

“Prescribed form and manner for making request under section 42M(2A) of Act

17.—(1) For the purposes of section 42M(2A) of the Act, a request must be submitted to the Returning Officer through the Internet website of the Elections Department at https://www.eld.gov.sg, using the form for that purpose made available on that website.

(2) The request must —

(a)	state the name and NRIC number of the candidate making the request;
(b)	provide the Internet address at which, or any other means by which, the online election advertisement that is the subject of the request may be accessed;
(c)	explain how the online election advertisement represents any candidate as saying or doing something that the candidate did not in fact say or do;
(d)	provide an email address or other means by which the candidate making the request may be contacted for the purposes of the request; and
(e)	include a declaration by the candidate making the request that the information provided in the request is true and complete to the best of his or her knowledge, information and belief.”.

Made on 16 January 2025.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Prime Minister’s Office,
Singapore.

[ELD(A)/4-7; AG/LEGIS/SL/240A/2020/4]

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

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