Regulation 18

As soon as practicable after a precinct has been declared under section 24B(1) of the Act and after the HDB has approved any proposal of the Town Council to carry out certain lift upgrading works in a building within the precinct, the Minister shall appoint —

The Minister may, in addition to the chief polling officer appointed under paragraph (1)(a), appoint one or more deputy chief polling officers to assist the chief polling officer in the performance of his duties under these Rules, and the deputy chief polling officer shall have all the powers and may perform all the duties of the chief polling officer under these Rules.

The chief polling officer shall, as soon as practicable after his appointment under paragraph (1)(a) for the purposes of any poll, appoint such polling officers and clerks as may be necessary for the purposes of that poll.

No officer of the HDB who is appointed under rule 13 to vote on behalf of the HDB at a poll shall be appointed as a chief polling officer, deputy chief polling officer, scrutineer, polling officer or clerk for the purposes of that same poll.

In this rule, “Minister” includes —