Singapore legislation
Section 20
Section 20
Notice of certification of register and commencement and period of operation
(1)
On the certification of a register under this Act, the Registration Officer must give notice in the Gazette that the register has been certified and that the register, or a copy of the register, is open for inspection at all reasonable hours of the day at the office of the Registration Officer and at such other place or places in the division to which the register relates as may be specified in the notice.
(2)
The certified register —
in the case of a register prepared under section 10(1) or (1A) — comes into operation at the next general election and not earlier; and
in the case of a revised register — comes into operation on the date of publication of the notice of the certification of the register in the Gazette.
(2A)
Subject to such alterations as may subsequently be made in the register in accordance with section 13, 17 or 43, or with section 26 of the Presidential Elections Act 1991, the register continues in operation until superseded by the coming into operation of the next certified register.
(3)
Where a new electoral division is created under section 8 by the amalgamation of the whole of 2 or more existing electoral divisions, or where there is no change in the boundary of any electoral division specified in a notification under section 8(1), section 10 does not apply to that electoral division unless the Minister otherwise directs; and the certified registers of electors in operation for those existing electoral divisions which have been amalgamated to form any new electoral division are deemed to be the register of electors in operation for that new electoral division at the next general election.