Section 65

A person —

An individual who is not a citizen of Singapore must not knowingly publish or display, or knowingly cause or permit to be published or displayed, any election advertising among any electors during the period beginning with the day the writ of election is issued for an election and ending with the start of the eve of polling day at the election.

A person must not conduct any election activity unless the person is in possession of a written authority in the prescribed form signed by a candidate or any election agent of the candidate and issued on or after nomination day.

Every candidate and election agent must supply particulars in duplicate of all written authorities issued by them under subsection (2) to the Returning Officer, who must on receipt thereof forward a copy of those particulars to the Commissioner of Police.

Any candidate or election agent must, if so required by the Commissioner of Police, immediately withdraw and deliver to the Returning Officer the written authority given by the candidate or election agent to any person who is stated by the Commissioner of Police to be a person in respect of whom an order of supervision has been made under section 30(1)(b) of the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act 1955.

Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.

A candidate or election agent must not authorise any person to conduct an election activity, knowing or having reason to believe that the person is attending a primary or secondary school as a student or that an order of supervision has been made in respect of the person under section 30(1)(b) of the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act 1955.

Every offence under this section for contravening subsection (1), (1A) or (2) is an arrestable offence within the meaning of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.

In this section, “election activity” includes any activity which is done for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of any candidate at any election other than clerical work wholly performed within enclosed premises.

Nothing in this section prohibits the carrying out by any prescribed person, or person in a prescribed class of persons, of such type of work as is prescribed, being work that is performed solely pursuant to a contract for service entered into with a person authorised to conduct election activity under this section.