Clause 1
Short title and commencement
This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Temporary Suspension of Overseas Voting) Act 2001 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 26th September 2001.
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Parliamentary Elections (Temporary Suspension of Overseas Voting) Bill is Singapore Bill, cited as Bill 44 2001, currently marked in force and first recorded in 2001.
Short title and commencement
This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Elections (Temporary Suspension of Overseas Voting) Act 2001 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 26th September 2001.
Temporary suspension of registration of overseas electors and overseas voting provisions
Sections 5(1A), 6(1A), 10(4), 11(2B), 13A, 34(6)(c), 34A(6)(c), 36A(2), 39(2A), 39A, 48A(2) and 49A of the Parliamentary Elections Act shall cease to have effect until polling day of the first general election after the date of commencement of this Act.
Validation of non-registration of overseas electors
No legal proceedings shall lie or be instituted against the Registration Officer for or on account of any act or decision —
not to register any person as an overseas elector under the Parliamentary Elections Act; or
not to include in any register of electors the name of any person referred to in section 5(1A) of the Parliamentary Elections Act,that is done or taken during the period beginning on 26th September 2001 and ending on the date the registers of electors that were opened for public inspection on 28th September 2001 are certified under that Act.