Singapore legislation
Clause 4
Clause 4
Amendment of section 8A
Section 8A of the principal Act is amended —
(a)
by deleting the words “3 candidates, or on the basis of a group of 4 candidates” in the sixth and seventh lines of subsection (1)(a) and substituting the words “such number of candidates, being not less than 3 but not more than 6”;
(b)
by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsection:“(1A) There shall at all times be at least 8 electoral divisions which are not declared under subsection (1)(a) to be group representation constituencies.”; and
(c)
by deleting the words “or more than three-quarters” in the third line of subsection (2).