Singapore legislation

Clause 64

of Presidential Elections Bill

Clause 64

Undue influence at or near polling station

(1)

Subject to subsection (2), no person shall —

(a)

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

(b)

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

(c)

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

(d)

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

(e)

loiter in any street or public place within a radius of 200 metres of any polling station on polling day; or

(f)

open or maintain, for the purpose of any activity directed towards promoting or procuring the election of a candidate at any election, any office in any room, building or any place whatsover, whether open or enclosed, on polling day.

(2)

Every candidate or his election agent may open or maintain one office for each polling district, which shall not be within a radius of 200 metres of any polling station, and the address of every such office shall be registered by the candidate or his election agent with the Returning Officer before polling day.

(3)

Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

(4)

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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