Singapore legislation
Section 62
Section 62
Nomination of election agent
(1)
On or before the day of nomination at an election, a person must be named in writing by or on behalf of each candidate as his or her agent for that election and the person is called in this Act the election agent.
(2)
A candidate may name himself or herself as election agent, and is thereupon, so far as circumstances admit, subject to the provisions of this Act, both as a candidate and as an election agent, and any reference in this Act to an election agent is construed to refer to the candidate acting in his or her capacity as an election agent.
(3)
On or before the day of nomination, the name and address of the election agent of each candidate must be declared in writing by the candidate or some other person on the candidate’s behalf to the Returning Officer.
(3A)
The Returning Officer must then immediately, by affixing a notice in a conspicuous place outside the Returning Officer’s office, give public notification of the name and address of every election agent so declared.
(4)
One election agent only must be appointed for each candidate, but the appointment, whether the election agent appointed be the candidate himself or herself or not, may be revoked.
(4A)
In the event of such revocation or of the death of an election agent, whether the event is before, during or after the election, another election agent must immediately be appointed, and his or her name and address declared in writing to the Returning Officer, who must immediately give public notice of the name and address in the manner specified in subsection (3A).
(5)
A principal election agent for a group of candidates must be appointed by the candidates from among their election agents and the provisions of this section relating to the appointment and revocation of appointment of an election agent and public notification thereof apply, with the necessary modifications, in respect of a principal election agent.
(6)
The election agent of a candidate (called candidate A) belonging to a group of candidates may act by the election agent of any other candidate belonging to the same group (called a sub‑agent) whom the firstmentioned election agent authorises in writing in respect of such expenses incurred on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the election for the candidates as are named in the authority, and —
anything done by or to the sub-agent is deemed to be done by the election agent and sub‑agent jointly; and
candidate A suffers the like incapacity as if any act or default of the sub‑agent had been the act or default of candidate A’s election agent.
(7)
To avoid doubt, nothing in subsection (6) prevents an election agent of a candidate belonging to a group from authorising in writing more than one sub-agent from among the respective election agents of the other candidates belonging to the same group.
(8)
The authorisation of a sub-agent under subsection (6) —
is not vacated by the election agent who authorised the sub‑agent ceasing to be an election agent; and
may be revoked by whoever is for the time being the election agent.
(9)
The references in sections 64, 65(1) and (1A), 66, 68 and 69 to an election agent of a candidate (called candidate A) are, in relation to an election in a group representation constituency, to be taken as references to the election agent —
acting by himself or herself; or
acting by the election agent of any other candidate belonging to the same group as candidate A whom the firstmentioned election agent has authorised in writing under subsection (6) to act as his or her sub‑agent in respect of such expenses incurred on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of the election for the candidates as are named in that authority.