Clause 65

No person —

No person shall conduct any election activity unless he is in possession of a written authority in the prescribed form signed by a candidate or the election agent of the candidate and issued on or after nomination day.

Every candidate and election agent shall supply particulars in duplicate of all written authorities issued by them under subsection (2) to the Returning Officer, who shall on receipt thereof forward a copy of those particulars to the Commissioner of Police.

Any candidate or election agent shall, if so required by the Commissioner of Police, forthwith withdraw and deliver to the Returning Officer the written authority given by the candidate or election agent to any person who is stated by the Commissioner of Police to be a person in respect of whom an order has been made under section 30(b) of the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act.

For the purposes of this section, “election activity” includes any activity which is done for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of any candidate at any election other than clerical work wholly performed within enclosed premises.

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.

No candidate or election agent shall authorise any person to conduct an election activity, knowing or having reason to believe that the person is attending a primary or secondary school as a student or that an order has been made in respect of the person under section 30(b) of the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act.

Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person offending in his view against subsection (1) or (2) and take him before a Magistrate’s Court to be dealt with according to law.