On 21/05/2013,
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incorporating all amendments published on or before 21/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 15/04/2011.
5.
—(1) Subject to sections 6 and 7, any person who on the prescribed date in any year —
(a)
is a citizen of Singapore;
(b)
is ordinarily resident in Singapore; and
(c)
is not less than 21 years of age,
shall be entitled to have his name entered or retained in a register of electors in that year.
[42/96]
(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), a person shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident in Singapore on the prescribed date in a year if the person has resided in Singapore for an aggregate of 30 days during the period of 3 years immediately preceding the prescribed date, even though the person is not resident in Singapore on that date.
[14/2008]
(2) For the purposes of the preparation or revision of any register of electors a person who is a citizen of Singapore and to whom an identity card has been issued or deemed to have been issued on or before the prescribed date in any year under the provisions of the National Registration Act (Cap. 201) and has not been withdrawn shall, until the contrary be shown, be presumed —
(a)
to be ordinarily resident in Singapore on the prescribed date in that year;
(b)
to be not less than 21 years of age on the prescribed date in that year, if from the particulars recorded in the register maintained by the Commissioner of National Registration he appears to be not less than that age on that date; and
(c)
to reside in the electoral division and polling district of the electoral division in which is situated the latest address shown on the prescribed date in the register maintained by the Commissioner of National Registration.
[42/96; 19/2001]
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), the Registration Officer may, in preparing or revising any register of electors, omit therefrom the name of any person where he has reason to believe that the latest address of the person shown on the prescribed date in the register maintained by the Commissioner of National Registration has ceased to exist or to be used as a place of residence or is an address situated outside Singapore.
[19/2001]
(4) For the purposes of subsections (1), (1A) and (2), the prescribed date shall be 1st July or such other date as the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, specify1.
1 Parliamentary Elections (Prescribed Date) Order 2011 (S 3/2011) which specified 1st January in any year to be the prescribed date w.e.f. 3rd January 2011.
[42/96; 19/2001]
(5) No order shall be made under subsection (4) between the date of commencement of any preparation or revision of any register of electors for any year and the date of certification of that register under this Act (both dates inclusive).
[42/96]
(6) For the purposes of this section, the contact address of the holder of an identity card shall be regarded as his latest address in the register maintained by the Commissioner of National Registration.
[19/2001; 14/2008]