Singapore legislation
Regulation 27
of Parliamentary Elections (Crisis Management) Regulations 2024
Regulation 27
Supplementary provisions if adding temporarily suspended
Subregulation 1
This regulation applies if the adding of votes at the principal counting place is temporarily suspended under regulation 26.
Subregulation 2
The Returning Officer must announce the temporary suspension of the adding of votes to persons present at the principal counting place.
Subregulation 3
The adding of votes at the principal counting place must stop immediately.
Subregulation 4
The Returning Officer must secure the adding material at the principal counting place in the presence of the candidates and their principal election agents who are in attendance by —
making up the adding material into separate packets; and
sealing each packet with —
the seal of the Returning Officer; and
the seal of the candidates and their principal election agents who wish to affix their seals.
Subregulation 5
The Returning Officer must hold the secured adding material in safe custody (whether at the principal counting place or any other location) during the temporary suspension.
Subregulation 6
Immediately before the adding of votes resumes, the Returning Officer must —
if the secured adding material is not held at the location for the resumed adding of votes, deliver the secured adding material to that location; and
in the presence of the candidates and their principal election agents who are in attendance, retrieve the adding material from the means by which it is secured.
Subregulation 7
The resumed adding of votes must be conducted as nearly as possible in accordance with the Act.