33. No regulations between writ and return respecting election expenses

Despite section 32, where a writ is issued, no regulations may be made amending —

(a)

the maximum amount of anonymous donations a political association or a candidate and the candidate’s election agent is permitted by section 8(2) or 14(2) to accept; or

(b)

the minimum amount of donation that is a recordable donation specified in section 12(2) or 19(2)(a),until after the last day prescribed by section 74(1) of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954 or, in the case of a presidential election, by section 56(1) of the Presidential Elections Act 1991, for the transmission of returns respecting election expenses in connection with the election or (as the case may be) presidential election.

Terms defined in this Act

candidate
Defined · s 2
“candidate” means a person who is nominated as a candidate at an election or at a presidential election, and includes any person (whether or not a member of any political association) who, on or after the date of the issue of a writ for the election or presidential election (as the case may be) is declared, by the person or others, as seeking nomination as a candidate at that election or (as the case may be) presidential election;
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donation
Defined · s 3
“donation”, in relation to a candidate at an election or at a presidential election, means —(a)any gift of money or other property to the candidate or his or her election agent;(b)any money spent (otherwise than by the candidate as permitted by any other written law) in paying any expenses incurred, directly or indirectly, by the candidate or by his or her election agent or any person authorised by his or her election agent;(c)any money lent to the candidate or his or her election agent otherwise than on commercial terms;(d)the provision otherwise than on commercial terms of any property, services or facilities (including the services of any person) to the candidate or his or her election agent; or(e)the provision of any sponsorship in relation to the candidate,that is given, spent, lent or provided (whether before or after he or she becomes a candidate) for the purposes of the candidate’s election.(2) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
Open s 3
election
Defined · s 2
“election” has the meaning given by the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954;
Open s 2
election agent
Defined · s 2
“election agent”, in relation to a candidate, means the person named as the candidate’s election agent under section 62(1) of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954 or section 43(1) of the Presidential Elections Act 1991;
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political association
Defined · s 2
“political association” means —(a)a political party or an organisation that has as one of its objects or activities the promotion or procuring of the election to Parliament or to the office of President of a candidate or candidates endorsed by the organisation; or(b)an organisation (not being a branch of any organisation) whose objects or activities relate wholly or mainly to politics in Singapore and that is declared by the Minister, by order in the Gazette, to be a political association for the purposes of this Act;
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presidential election
Defined · s 2
“presidential election” means an election under the Presidential Elections Act 1991;
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recordable donation
Defined · s 2
“recordable donation”, in relation to any donation report, means a donation required by this Act to be recorded in that report;
Open s 2
writ
Defined · s 2
“writ” means a writ of election issued under section 24 of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954 or, in the case of a presidential election, under section 6 of the Presidential Elections Act 1991.
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Report

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