Singapore legislation
Regulation 23
of Parliamentary Elections (Crisis Management) Regulations 2024
Regulation 23
Supplementary provisions if counting temporarily suspended
Subregulation 1
This regulation applies if the counting of votes cast in Singapore at a counting place is temporarily suspended under regulation 22.
Subregulation 2
The Returning Officer must announce the temporary suspension of counting to persons present at the affected counting place.
Subregulation 3
The counting of votes at the affected counting place must stop immediately.
Subregulation 4
The Returning Officer must secure the counting material at the affected counting place in the presence of the candidates and their counting agents who are in attendance by —
making up the counting material into separate packets; and
sealing each packet with —
the seal of the Returning Officer; and
the seals of the candidates and their counting agents who wish to affix their seals.
Subregulation 5
The Returning Officer must hold the secured counting material in safe custody (whether at the affected counting place or any other location) during the temporary suspension.
Subregulation 6
Immediately before the counting of votes resumes, the Returning Officer must —
if the secured counting material is not held at the location for the resumed count, deliver the secured counting material to that location; and
in the presence of the candidates and their counting agents who are in attendance, retrieve the counting material from the means by which it is secured.
Subregulation 7
The resumed count must be conducted as nearly as possible in accordance with the Act.