Singapore legislation

Clause 4

of Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill

Clause 4

Amendment of section 9

Subsection (2) of section 9 of the principal Act is hereby deleted and the following substituted therefor: —“(2) The subdivision of an electoral division into polling districts may be altered by the Registration Officer as occasion may require; and upon any such alteration being made he shall publish in the Gazette a notice specifying in relation to that electoral division the particulars mentioned in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this section. Any such alteration shall come into effect on the date of the publication of the notice under subsection (1) of section 20 of this Act relating to the next certification of the register of electors for that electoral division, but the revision of such register before such certification shall be made on the basis of such alteration.”.