Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

New section 8A

The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 8, the following section:“Group representation constituencies8A.—

(1)

For the purposes of electing Members of Parliament on a group basis to ensure the representation in Parliament of Members from the Malay and other minority communities under this Act, the President by order published in the Gazette —

(a)

may, subject to subsection (2), declare any electoral division, having regard to the number of electors in that division, to be a group representation constituency; and

(b)

shall designate every group representation constituency as —

(i)

a constituency where at least one of the 3 candidates in every group shall be a person belonging to the Malay community; or

(ii)

a constituency where at least one of the 3 candidates in every group shall be a person belonging to any minority community other than the Malay community.(2) The number of Members to be returned by all group representation constituencies shall not exceed one-half of the total number of Members to be returned at a general election.”.

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