Singapore

Table of Contents:

• General Right to Vote
• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Assistive Tools and Policies
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Section 5, subsection 1 states:

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…

 

Excerpt from the Parliamentary Elections Act (1954, last amended 2011)

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Section 6, subsection 1 states:

No person shall be entitled to have his name entered or retained in any register of electors if he…

• (c) is under any written law found or declared to be of unsound mind…

 

Section 23, subsection 2 states:

If the Returning Officer is, by sickness or other cause, prevented or disabled from performing any of his duties under this Act and there is insufficient time for any other person to be appointed by the Minister, the Returning Officer may appoint, by name or office, a deputy to act for him.

 

Section 42, subsection 5 states:

The presiding officer, on the application of a voter who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner prescribed by this Act, shall mark the ballot paper of the voter in the manner directed by the voter, and shall cause the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.

 

Fourth Schedule, section 21, subsection 2 states:

In the event of the Judge who begins the hearing being disabled by illness or otherwise, it may be recommenced and concluded by another Judge.

 

Excerpts from the Parliamentary Elections Act (1954, last amended 2011)

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Section 42, subsection 5 states:

The presiding officer, on the application of a voter who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner prescribed by this Act, shall mark the ballot paper of the voter in the manner directed by the voter, and shall cause the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.

 

Section 71, subsection 4 states:

Between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on polling day, no person shall park a motor vehicle within 100 metres of any polling station other than a motor vehicle used for the conveyance of any sick, infirm or disabled person for such time as is reasonably necessary to enable the person to cast his vote.

 

Section 88, subsection 1 states:

(1) Where the return and statements respecting election expenses of a candidate at an election have not been transmitted as required by this Act, or being transmitted contain some error or false statement, then —

• (a) if the candidate applies to an Election Judge or a Judge of the High Court and shows that the failure to transmit the return and statements, or any of them, or any part thereof, or any error or false statement therein, has arisen by reason of his illness, or of the absence, death, illness or misconduct of his election agent, of the principal election agent appointed for the group of candidates of whom the candidate is one or the sub-agent that his election agent authorised under section 62(6), or of any clerk or officer of the agent, or by reason of inadvertence or of any reasonable cause of a like nature, and not by reason of any want of good faith on the part of the applicant; or
• (b) if the election agent of the candidate, or the principal election agent appointed for the group of candidates of whom the candidate is one, or the election agent authorised as a sub-agent under section 62(6), applies to an Election Judge or a Judge of the High Court and shows that the failure to transmit the return and statements which he was required to transmit, or any part thereof, or any error or false statement therein, arose by reason of his illness, or of the death, illness or misconduct of any prior election agent of the candidate, or of the absence, death, illness or misconduct of any clerk, or officer of an election agent of the candidate, or by reason of inadvertence or of any reasonable cause of a like nature, and not by reason of any want of good faith on the part of the applicant, the Judge may, after such notice of the application, and on production of such evidence of the grounds stated in the application, and of the good faith of the application, and otherwise, as to the Judge seems fit, and after giving the other candidates, the Returning Officer and any elector within the electoral division an opportunity of being heard, make such order for allowing an authorised excuse for the failure to transmit such return and statements, or for an error or false statement in such return and statements as to the Judge seems just.

 

Excerpts from the Parliamentary Elections Act (1954, last amended 2011)

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Section 23, subsection 2 states:

If the Returning Officer is, by sickness or other cause, prevented or disabled from performing any of his duties under this Act and there is insufficient time for any other person to be appointed by the Minister, the Returning Officer may appoint, by name or office, a deputy to act for him.

 

Section 42, subsection 5 states:

The presiding officer, on the application of a voter who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner prescribed by this Act, shall mark the ballot paper of the voter in the manner directed by the voter, and shall cause the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box.

 

Fourth Schedule, section 21, subsection 2 states:

In the event of the Judge who begins the hearing being disabled by illness or otherwise, it may be recommenced and concluded by another Judge.

 

Excerpts from the Parliamentary Elections Act (1954, last amended 2011)