Singapore legislation

Section 103

of Parliamentary Elections Act 1954

Section 103

Inaccurate description of persons and places

(1)

No omission and no misnomer or inaccurate description of any person or place named or described in any register, notice or other document prepared or issued under or for the purposes of this Act is to in any way affect the operation of this Act as respects that person or place if that person or place is so designated in such register, notice or document as to be identifiable.

(2)

Without limiting subsection (1), a nomination paper must not be rejected, and an objection must not be allowed, on account of —

(a)

any error or omission in a nomination paper in relation to the description of, or any particulars in respect of, the candidate or person seeking nomination, or his or her proposer or seconder or any of his or her assentors, if the particulars contained in the nomination paper are sufficient to identify the candidate or person seeking nomination, or his or her proposer, seconder or assentor, as the case may be;

(b)

any error or omission with regard to any place specified in the nomination paper, if such place is otherwise sufficiently identifiable from the particulars given in the nomination paper; or

(c)

any error or omission that is corrected before 12 noon on the day of nomination in accordance with section 29A.

(3)

In this section —

(a)

“error” includes any misnomer, misspelling, misprint, misplacement, mistake, inaccuracy, omission, and any clerical, technical or printing error, and any error of any other description or nature; and

(b)

“particulars” and “description” each includes anything stated or required to be stated in respect of any person or place in the nomination paper.

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