Singapore legislation

Clause 43

of Singapore National Referendum Ordinance

Clause 43

Undue influence at or near polling station

(1)

No person shall —

(a)

endeavour to establish the identity of any person entering a polling station; or

(b)

check the name of any person entering a polling station on any list at the approach to a polling station; or

(c)

any where place any desk or table or establish any office or booth for the purpose of recording particulars of voters; or

(d)

wait outside any polling station on polling day, except for the purpose of gaining entry to the polling station to cast his vote; or

(e)

loiter in any street or public place within a radius of two hundred yards of any polling station on polling day; or

(f)

open or maintain, for the purpose of any activity in connection with any referendum, any office in any room, building or any place whatsoever, whether open or enclosed, on polling day:Provided that any political party represented in the Legislative Assembly may open and maintain in each electoral division not more than two offices which shall not be within two hundred yards of any polling station.

(2)

Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for one year.

(3)

Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person offending in his view against any of the provisions of this section and take him before a Magistrate’s Court to be dealt with according to law.

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