Singapore legislation

Clause 42

of Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill

Clause 42

Amendment of section 83

Section 83 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:“(a)who is below 16 years of age;”;

(b)

by inserting the word “or” at the end of subsection (1)(b);

(c)

by deleting paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:“(c)who is a foreigner or a foreign entity,”;

(d)

by deleting subsection (1A);

(e)

by deleting the words “attending a primary or secondary school as a student or” in subsection (6) and substituting the words “below 16 years of age or is a foreigner or a foreign entity, or”;

(f)

by deleting “, (1A)” in subsection (7);

(g)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (8), the following subsection:“(8A) However, “election activity” excludes a third party publishing, or causing to be published, any content in any way that renders the content accessible from the Internet, where all or part of the production of the content or its publication is not paid for, in money or money’s worth, by the third party or by another person who may or may not be a third party.”; and

(h)

by inserting, immediately after the words “section prohibits” in subsection (9), the words “the taking part in or conduct of election activity by any prescribed individual, or individual in a prescribed class of individuals, or”.