Singapore legislation
Section 30C
Section 30C
Regulations relating to special polling arrangements
(1)
Subject to subsection (2) and section 81B, the Minister may make regulations to modify the application of any provision of this Act to the conduct of polls in any special polling station established in a nursing home, including but not limited to —
the preparation by or under the authority of the Returning Officer of the list of electors allotted to the special polling station;
the manner of voting at the special polling station and the taking of votes by mobile polling teams;
fixing the maximum number of polling agents who may be admitted to a special polling station;
the admission of any person who is employed by the nursing home (whether or not a citizen of Singapore) into any polling place in the special polling station or authorising the presence of such an employee in the special polling station, for the purpose of providing any assistance to the presiding officers, mobile polling team or any elector at the special polling station;
the procedure on the closing of the poll at the special polling station; and
the procedure on the counting of the votes cast at the special polling station, including the recounting of such votes.
(2)
Regulations made under subsection (1) —
must not authorise any person to vote more than once at an election;
must provide for a record of every vote cast at a special polling station, including votes taken by a mobile polling team, but the vote record must not contain any means of identifying the person who cast the vote; and
must be consistent with the principles laid down in any provision of this Act that is modified by those regulations.