Singapore legislation

Regulation 28

of Parliamentary Elections (Crisis Management) Regulations 2024

Regulation 28

Supplementary provisions if adding adjourned and postponed

Subregulation 1

This regulation applies if the adding of votes at the principal counting place is adjourned and postponed under regulation 26.

Subregulation 2

The Returning Officer must announce the adjournment and postponement 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 —

(a)

making up the adding material into separate packets; and

(b)

sealing each packet with —

(i)

the seal of the Returning Officer; and

(ii)

the seals 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) while the adding stands adjourned.

Subregulation 6

Immediately before the adding of votes resumes, the Returning Officer must —

(a)

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

(b)

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.