Parliamentary Elections Act 1954 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Elections
61R. Election advertising regulations
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Subject to section 102B, the Minister may make regulations necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Division or Division 1, 2 or 3.
In particular, the Minister may make regulations for any of the following:
regulating any public display, by or on behalf of a political party, or a candidate or group of candidates, or both, of any traditional election advertising;
regulating the publishing in Singapore by electronic means, by or on behalf of a political party, or a candidate or group of candidates, or both, in connection with an election in an electoral division, any online election advertising and any non-online election advertising;
providing that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $1,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or with both;
providing for any saving, transitional and other consequential, incidental and supplemental provisions that are necessary or expedient.
The election advertising regulations may prescribe —
election advertising
“election advertising” means any poster, banner, notice, circular, handbill, illustration, article, advertisement or other material that can reasonably be regarded as intended —(a)to promote or procure the electoral success at any election for one or more identifiable political parties, candidates or groups of candidates; or(b)to otherwise enhance the standing of any such political parties, candidates or groups of candidates with the electorate in connection with any election,and such material is election advertising even though it can reasonably be regarded as intended to achieve any other purpose as well and even though it does not expressly mention the name of any political party or candidate, but excludes any button, badge, pen, pencil, balloon and any other thing prescribed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette;
a maximum permissible number of traditional election advertising allowed to be publicly displayed within an electoral division by reference to the total number of electors registered for the electoral division; and
different maximum permissible numbers for different types of traditional election advertising or for different forms of public display of traditional election advertising.