Modification of section 48: procedure on closing of poll
29.—(1)  As soon as practicable after the close of the poll, every presiding officer of each overseas polling station shall, in the presence of such of the candidates and their polling agents as are present, make up into separate packets, sealed with the presiding officer’s own seal and the seals of the candidates or their agents if they desire to affix their seals —
(a)the unused and spoilt ballot papers placed together;
(b)the marked list of overseas electors for that overseas polling station;
(c)the counterfoils of the ballot papers; and
(d)the tendered votes list.
(2)  All ballot box or boxes within the overseas polling station shall remain unopened and shall be secured by the Assistant Returning Officer and sealed with —
(a)the seal supplied by the Returning Officer; and
(b)the seals of such of the candidates or their polling agents as are present and who wish to affix their seals,
in such manner that the box or boxes cannot be opened and nothing can be inserted therein without breaking the seals.
(3)  The Assistant Returning Officer in charge of an overseas polling station shall without delay despatch every packet referred to in paragraph (1) and the sealed ballot box or boxes in safe custody to the Returning Officer in Singapore by such means approved by the Returning Officer.
(4)  Until their despatch to the Returning Officer in Singapore, the Assistant Returning Officer in charge of the overseas polling station shall be responsible for all the sealed packets referred to in paragraph (1) and the sealed ballot box or boxes in his possession, and he must take every precaution for the safekeeping of those packets and ballot boxes and to prevent any person from having unlawful access to them.