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Part I PRELIMINARY

Part II REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS AND REVISION OF REGISTERS

Part III ELECTIONS

UNCONTESTED ELECTIONS

CONTESTED ELECTIONS

POSTPONEMENT AND ADJOURNMENT OF ELECTIONS

CORRUPT PRACTICES

ELECTION AGENT, ELECTION EXPENSES AND ILLEGAL PRACTICES

EXCUSE FOR CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL PRACTICE

GROUNDS FOR AVOIDING ELECTIONS

Part IV APPLICATIONS FOR AVOIDANCE OF ELECTION

Part V GENERAL

FIRST SCHEDULE Forms

SECOND SCHEDULE Directions for guidance of voters in voting

THIRD SCHEDULE Election expenses

FOURTH SCHEDULE Parliamentary Elections (Application for Avoidance of Election) Rules

Legislative History

Comparative Table

 
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On 19/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 19/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 19/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 15/04/2011.
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Counting places
48A.
—(1)  The Returning Officer may —
(a)
direct that the votes cast at any polling station or stations in Singapore for an electoral division be counted at such counting place for that electoral division (which may or may not be a polling station) and time as he may specify; and
(b)
where more than one counting place is specified for an electoral division under paragraph (a), direct that the total number of votes given to each candidate or group of candidates at the poll be ascertained at a principal counting place for that electoral division (which may or may not be a counting place for that division) and time as he may specify.
[42/96; 19/2001]
(2)  The votes cast at all overseas polling stations shall be counted at such place or places in Singapore as the Returning Officer directs.
[19/2001]
(3)  The Returning Officer shall give notice in writing of his direction under subsection (1) or (2) to each candidate or his election agent not less than 2 clear days before polling day.
[42/96; 19/2001]
(4)  Where polling at all polling stations established for the purposes of a poll in an electoral division is postponed under section 56C, the conduct of the counting of votes cast for the electoral division shall stand postponed until such other time as the Returning Officer, by notice in writing to each candidate or his election agent, shall specify.
[10/2010]
(5)  Where polling at any polling station established for the purposes of a poll in an electoral division is temporarily suspended, adjourned and postponed or abandoned and re-started under section 56C, the conduct of the count in respect of votes cast at the other polling stations for that electoral division at which the poll has closed, shall stand postponed until such other time as the Returning Officer, by notice in writing to each candidate or his election agent, shall specify.
[10/2010]