Singapore legislation
Clause 17
Clause 17
Amendment of section 52
Section 52 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsections:“(3A) Where there is an equality of the percentage of the votes between any candidates and the number of such candidates who are eligible to be declared elected under this section exceeds the number of non-constituency Members to be declared elected, the determination of the candidate or candidates to be declared elected shall be as follows:
if all such candidates are from the same group, the Returning Officer shall inform that group of the number of candidate or candidates in that group to be declared elected and the group shall within 7 days determine among themselves who shall be declared elected and shall forthwith notify the Returning Officer of such determination;
in any other case, or where the group referred to in paragraph (a) fails to notify the Returning Officer, the determination shall be made by lot in the presence of the Returning Officer in such manner and at such time as he may determine.(3B) Upon receipt of a notification under subsection (3A)(a), the Returning Officer shall as soon as possible declare the candidate or candidates determined under that subsection to be elected as a non-constituency Member or Members, as the case may be.(3C) For the purposes of this section and section 53, each candidate in a group for any group representation constituency shall be deemed to have received in respect of that constituency the percentage of the votes polled by that group in that constituency.”.