Singapore legislation
Regulation 31
of Parliamentary Elections (Crisis Management) Regulations 2024
Regulation 31
Supplementary provisions if pre‑count examination of postal voting papers temporarily suspended
Subregulation 1
This regulation applies if the pre‑count examination of postal voting papers at a counting place for overseas votes is temporarily suspended under regulation 30.
Subregulation 2
The Returning Officer must announce the temporary suspension of the pre‑count examination to persons present at the affected counting place.
Subregulation 3
The pre-count examination at the affected counting place must stop immediately.
Subregulation 4
The Returning Officer must secure the postal voting papers at the affected counting place in the presence of the candidates and their counting agents who are in attendance by —
making up the postal voting papers 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 postal voting papers in safe custody (whether at the affected counting place or any other location) during the temporary suspension.
Subregulation 6
Immediately before the pre-count examination of postal voting papers resumes, the Returning Officer must —
if the secured postal voting papers is not held at the location for the resumed count, deliver the secured postal voting papers to that location; and
in the presence of the candidates and their counting agents who are in attendance, retrieve the postal voting papers from the means by which it is secured.
Subregulation 7
The resumed pre-count examination must be conducted as nearly as possible in accordance with the Act.