Singapore legislation
Section 75
Section 75
Publication of receipt of return, etc.
(1)
When the Returning Officer has received any return respecting election expenses and the statements made in respect thereof, the Returning Officer must, as soon as possible, cause a notice of the date on which the return and statements in question were received by the Returning Officer and of the time and place at which they can be inspected, to be fixed in some conspicuous place in the Returning Officer’s office and published in the Gazette.
(2)
The Returning Officer must —
preserve all such returns and statements;
at all reasonable times during 6 months after the publication in the Gazette of the notice mentioned in this section, permit any person to inspect them and to make extracts therefrom on payment of a fee of $2; and
on payment of 30 cents for each page, supply a copy or copies of any part thereof.
(2A)
Before permitting the inspection of, or the making of extracts from, any return or statement under subsection (2)(b), the Returning Officer must —
completely redact the address and contact number of any individual disclosed in the return or statement; and
partially redact the identity card number of any individual disclosed in the return or statement.
(3)
After the end of one year after the date of publication of the notice mentioned in subsection (1), those documents may be destroyed or returned to the candidate if application for their return is made by the candidate before they are destroyed.