Parliamentary Elections (COVID-19 Special Arrangements) Regulations 2020

No. S 536

Parliamentary Elections
(COVID-19 Special Arrangements)
Act 2020

(ACT 21 OF 2020)

Parliamentary Elections
(COVID-19 Special Arrangements)
Regulations 2020

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(3) of the Parliamentary Elections (COVID-19 Special Arrangements) Act 2020, the Prime Minister makes the following Regulations:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Parliamentary Elections (COVID‑19 Special Arrangements) Regulations 2020 and come into operation on 1 July 2020.

Definitions

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“certified register of electors”, in relation to any electoral division —

(a)	means the register of electors certified under section 13 of the principal Act and in operation at the time of the election of a Member of Parliament to represent the electoral division; and
(b)	includes any composite register prepared under section 20A of the principal Act for that electoral division;

“COVID‑19 stay order” means an order under the Stay Order Regulations that an individual given the order must not leave a place of accommodation specified;

“independent candidate” means a candidate who is not a candidate for a political party;

“list of mobile polling electors” means the list required by regulation 3(2) to be prepared for the purposes of a poll at a special polling station using mobile polling and that is certified under regulation 3(3)(c), and includes a supplementary list of mobile polling electors prepared for the purposes of the same poll at that special polling station;

“list of stay order electors” means the list required by regulation 3(1) to be prepared for the purposes of a poll at a special polling station and that is certified under regulation 3(3)(c), and includes a supplementary list of stay order electors prepared for the purposes of the same poll at that special polling station;

“mobile polling determination” means a determination made under regulation 6(1) with respect to a particular boarding premises to enable votes of stay order electors required by the Stay Order Regulations to not leave those boarding premises, to be cast using a mobile polling team;

“mobile polling team” means a mobile polling team appointed under regulation 30;

“mobile polling team officer” means a member of a mobile polling team appointed under regulation 30;

“notice of contested election”, in relation to any electoral division, means the notice issued under section 34(6) or 34A(6) of the principal Act (as the case may be) in relation to that electoral division;

“NRIC number” means the number of an identity card issued under the National Registration Act (Cap. 201);

“official languages” means Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and English;

“poll” means a poll that must be held for an election in an electoral division because a notice of contested election is published in respect of that electoral division;

“presiding officer” includes a senior presiding officer appointed under section 36(1A) of the principal Act and an Assistant Returning Officer who presides at any special polling station;

“principal Act” means the Parliamentary Elections Act (Cap. 218);

“Registration Officer” includes an Assistant Registration Officer appointed under section 3 of the principal Act;

“responsible officer”, in relation to a political party, means —

(a)	for a political party that is a body corporate, the secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate; and
(b)	for a political party that is an unincorporated association, the secretary of the committee of the unincorporated association or the person holding a position analogous to that of the secretary,

and includes any person purporting to act in any such capacity or who is carrying out the duties of any such office referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) where the office is vacant;

“special polling station” means a polling station established under section 5(2) of the Act at a boarding premises;

“stay order elector” means an elector who —

(a)	is entitled to vote at an election in an electoral division; but
(b)	is, on the polling day of the election, subject to a COVID‑19 stay order and is required by the Stay Order Regulations to not leave a place of accommodation that is in a boarding premises;

“Stay Order Regulations” means the Infectious Diseases (COVID‑19 — Stay Orders) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 182/2020);

“supplementary list of mobile polling electors” means a supplementary list of mobile polling electors required to be prepared and certified under regulation 3(5)(d)(ii) and (e) for the purposes of a poll at that special polling station;

“supplementary list of stay order electors” means a supplementary list of stay order electors required to be prepared and certified under regulation 3(5)(d)(i) and (e) for the purposes of a poll at that special polling station;

“the Act” means the Parliamentary Elections (COVID‑19 Special Arrangements) Act 2020 (Act 21 of 2020);

“voting hours” means —

(a)	for a special polling station at which a poll must be held, the period required by section 5(4)(b) of the Act to be specified in a notice of contested election or specified in a notice under section 5(5) of the Act as the period during which votes may be cast at that special polling station;
(b)	for electors described in regulation 40, the time prescribed in that regulation with respect to those electors; or
(c)	in any other case, the period appointed by or under section 39(3) of the principal Act.

(2) Unless expressly provided otherwise in paragraph (1), any word or expression in these Regulations that is defined in section 2(1) of the principal Act has the meaning given to it by that section.

Made on 1 July 2020.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Prime Minister’s Office,
Singapore.

[ELD (A)/4-9; AG/LEGIS/SL/218A/2020/1 Vol. 1]

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