Clause 26

by deleting the words “or the official mark on any ballot paper” in subsection (1)(b) and substituting the words “or return envelope or the official mark on any ballot paper or return envelope for its authentication”;

by inserting, immediately after the words “ballot paper” wherever they appear in subsection (1)(c), (d) and (e), the words “or return envelope”;

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (f) of subsection (1), the following paragraph:“(fa)puts into any return envelope anything other than the postal ballot paper which he or she is authorised by law to put in;”;

by inserting, immediately after the words “ballot paper” wherever they appear in subsection (1)(g), the words “(other than a postal ballot paper)”;

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (g) of subsection (1), the following paragraphs:“(ga)without due authority intentionally opens, unseals or tampers with a sealed return envelope;

by inserting, immediately after the words “, ballot paper,” wherever they appear in subsection (4), the words “return envelope,”; and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (5), the following subsection:“(6) This section extends to a citizen of Singapore who engages in any conduct wholly or partly outside Singapore that constitutes an offence described in subsection (1) as if the offence had been committed in Singapore.”.