Singapore legislation
Regulation 37A
of Parliamentary Elections (Overseas Voting) Regulations 2024
Regulation 37A
Maximum number of representatives at areas demarcated for counting of overseas votes for specified electoral division
Subregulation 1
The Returning Officer may demarcate, within a counting place for overseas votes, an area for the counting of overseas votes cast in respect of a specified electoral division.
Subregulation 2
Paragraphs (3) to (7) apply if an area is demarcated under paragraph (1) for the counting of overseas votes cast in respect of a specified electoral division.
Subregulation 3
Subject to paragraph (4), the following persons may be present within the demarcated area while the overseas votes cast in respect of the specified electoral division are being counted:
the representatives of a political party that has a candidate or group of candidates (as the case may be) for the specified electoral division;
the representatives of an independent candidate or a group of independent candidates (as the case may be) for the specified electoral division.
Subregulation 4
The maximum number of representatives that a political party, an independent candidate or a group of independent candidates may have in the demarcated area is X + 1, where X is the number of Members to be returned for the specified electoral division.
Subregulation 5
Section 50(3) of the Act does not apply in relation to the rejection of overseas votes counted in the demarcated area.
Subregulation 6
Before rejecting an overseas vote, the Returning Officer must show it to each representative present in the demarcated area and hear the representative’s views, taking all proper precautions to prevent any person from seeing any number printed on the overseas vote.
Subregulation 7
In this regulation, “representative” has the meaning given by regulation 34(4).