Parliamentary Elections (Registration of Overseas Electors) Regulations

Parliamentary Elections Act

(CHAPTER 218, Section 102)

Rg 4

G.N. No. S 463/2001

REVISED EDITION 2011

(15th April 2011)

[26th September 2001]

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Registration of Overseas Electors) Regulations.

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 Form 1 in the Schedule; and

(b)

be made in accordance with regulations 5 and 8 —

(i)	in person;
(ii)	by post; or
(iii)	using the electronic system provided by the Government for this purpose.

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

(a)	state the overseas polling station at which the applicant wishes to vote at the next election; and
(b)	be accompanied by a duly completed declaration in Part 5 of Form 1 in the Schedule. [S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

Mode of application

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

(a)	at the office of the Registration Officer in Singapore;
(b)	at an 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 revised register of electors, as the case may be, for that electoral division. [S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

(2) To make the application by post, a person must send by post a duly completed Form 1 in the Schedule to the address of —

(a)	the office of the Registration Officer in Singapore; or
(b)	an overseas registration centre. [S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

(2A) To make the application using the electronic system provided by the Government for this purpose, a person must complete and submit a web-based form (made available on the Elections Department’s Internet website at http://www.eld.gov.sg) of Form 1 in the Schedule, in accordance with the instructions accompanying the web-based form or of the electronic system.

[S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

(2B) [Deleted by S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

(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.

Application to cancel registration or change overseas polling station

7.—(1) An application by an overseas elector under section 13A(3) of the Act must be in Form 2 in the Schedule and must be made in accordance with this regulation and regulation 8.

[S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

(2) An application referred to in paragraph (1) may be made at any time —

(a)	in person;
(b)	by post; or
(c)	by using the electronic system provided by the Government for this purpose.

(3) To make the application in person, an overseas elector must lodge a duly completed Form 2 in the Schedule —

(a)	at the office of the Registration Officer in Singapore; or
(b)	at an overseas registration centre. [S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

(4) To make the application by post, an overseas elector must send by post a duly completed Form 2 in the Schedule to the address of —

(a)	the office of the Registration Officer in Singapore; or
(b)	an overseas registration centre. [S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

(5) To make the application using the electronic system provided by the Government for this purpose, an overseas elector must complete and submit a web-based form (made available on the Elections Department’s Internet website at http://www.eld.gov.sg) of Form 2 in the Schedule, in accordance with the instructions accompanying the web-based form or of the electronic system.

[S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

(6) The Registration Officer may reject any application referred to in paragraph (1) if the application is incomplete or not made in accordance with these Regulations.

(7) [Deleted by S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

Notification of change of overseas contact particulars

7A.—(1) An overseas elector must notify the Registration Officer of any change in the overseas contact particulars of the overseas elector.

(2) The overseas elector must make the notification in Form 2 in the Schedule in the same manner as an application under regulation 7 is required to be made.

[S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

Forms

8.—(1) The forms in the Schedule shall be —

(a)	provided by the Registration Officer from his office at the Elections Department at 11 Prinsep Link, Singapore 187949 during such hours as his office is open for business;
(b)	provided by the officer in charge of the register at any overseas registration centre; and
(c)	made available on the Elections Department’s Internet website at http://www.eld.gov.sg. [S 271/2017 wef 01/06/2017]

(2) The forms in the Schedule shall be completed in the English language and in accordance with such directions as accompany the respective form or by the Registration Officer.

(3) Where strict compliance with any form in the Schedule is not possible, the Registration Officer may allow for the necessary modifications to be made to that form, or for the requirements of that form to be complied with in such other manner as the Registration Officer thinks fit.

[G.N. Nos. S 463/2001; S 97/2009]

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