Singapore legislation
Section 78A
Section 78A
Regulations for other election advertising
(1)
The Minister may make regulations —
prescribing the form and manner in which the names of the publisher of any election advertising not comprising printed matter and of the person for whom or at whose direction it is published must be included in such election advertising for the purpose of complying with section 61(1)(c)(ii); and
regulating election advertising and the publication thereof during an election period on what is commonly known as the Internet by political parties, and candidates or their election agents, including prescribing the features that must or must not appear or be used in any such election advertising.
(2)
Any person who contravenes any regulations made under subsection (1)(b) 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 12 months or to both.
(2A)
Every offence under subsection (2) is an arrestable offence within the meaning of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.
(3)
In this section and any regulations made under subsection (1), “election period” means the period beginning with the day the writ of election is issued for an election and ending with the start of polling day at the election.