Singapore legislation
Section 9
Section 9
Polling districts
(1)
Whenever any electoral division of Singapore is altered or a new division is created, the Registration Officer must —
subdivide that division into polling districts;
assign to each such polling district a distinguishing letter or letters; (c)prepare or cause to be prepared maps or other images in such detail and with such markings as sufficient to delineate the polling districts into which that electoral division has been subdivided; and
publish in the Gazette a notice containing —
particulars of the website at which the maps or other images of the polling districts mentioned in paragraph (c) may be accessed online, and the place at which the maps or other images may be inspected, by the public; and
the distinguishing letter or letters assigned to each such polling district.
(2)
The subdivision of an electoral division into polling districts may be altered by the Registration Officer as occasion may require; and upon any alteration being made the Registration Officer must take the steps mentioned in subsection (1)(c) and (d) for that electoral division.
(3)
Any alteration under subsection (1) comes into effect on the date of the publication of the notice under section 20(1) relating to the next certification of the register of electors for that electoral division, but the revision of the register before that certification must be made on the basis of that alteration.