Singapore legislation

Clause 37

of Presidential Elections Bill

Clause 37

Offences

(1)

Every person who —

(a)

forges or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper, or delivers to the Returning Officer any nomination paper knowing it to be forged;

(b)

forges or counterfeits or fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper;

(c)

without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person;

(d)

sells or offers to sell any ballot paper to any person or purchases or offers to purchase any ballot paper from any person;

(e)

not being a person entitled under this Act to be in possession of any ballot paper which has been marked with the official mark in accordance with this Act, has any such ballot paper in his possession;

(f)

puts into any ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorised by law to put in;

(g)

without due authority takes out of the polling station any ballot paper or is found in possession of any ballot paper outside a polling station;

(h)

without due authority destroys, takes, opens, or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or packet of ballot papers in use or intended to be used for the purposes of an election;

(i)

without due authority prints any ballot paper or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot paper at an election; or

(j)

manufactures, constructs, imports into Singapore, has in his possession, supplies or uses for the purpose of an election, or causes to be manufactured, constructed, imported into Singapore, supplied or used for the purpose of any election, any appliance, device or mechanism by which a ballot paper may be extracted, affected or manipulated after having been deposited in a ballot box during the polling at any election,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years.

(2)

Every person who attempts to commit an offence specified in this section shall be liable to the punishment prescribed for that offence.

(3)

Every offence under this section shall be a seizable offence within the meaning of the Criminal Procedure Code [Cap. 68].

(4)

In a prosecution for an offence in relation to a nomination paper, ballot box, ballot paper or marking instrument at an election, the property in the nomination paper, ballot box, ballot paper or marking instrument, as well as the property in the counterfoil of any ballot paper, may be stated to be in the Returning Officer at that election.

(5)

A prosecution for an offence under this section shall not be instituted without the sanction of the Public Prosecutor.

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