(3) If during any relevant period no donations have been received by a person who is or desires to be a candidate at an election or a presidential election which, by virtue of the provisions of this section, are required to be recorded in a donation report for that relevant period, the donation report shall contain a statement to that effect.
(4) Upon receipt of a donation report and declaration in compliance with the requirements of subsection (1), the Registrar shall issue to the person concerned not later than the eve of the nomination day at the election or (as the case may be) presidential election, a political donation certificate stating that the person has complied with subsection (1).
(5) Any such certificate issued under subsection (4) shall, for the purposes of any written law, be conclusive as to the facts it certifies.
(6) In this section, "relevant period", in relation to any person, means—
- (a) in the event a writ is issued within 12 months of the commencement of Part III, the period beginning on the date of such commencement and ending on the date the declaration under this section is made by that person; or
- (b) in any other case, the period of 12 months preceding the date the declaration under this section is made by that person (that date inclusive).
Post-election donation reports and declarations
19.—(1) Within 31 days after the date of publication of the statement of the poll referred to in section 51 of the Parliamentary Elections Act (Cap. 218) or, in the case of a presidential election, in section 34 (1) of the Presidential Elections Act (Cap. 240A), the candidate and his election agent at that election or, in the case of a presidential election, the candidate and his principal election agent, shall send to the Registrar—
- (a) a donation report in the prescribed form in respect of every recordable donation referred to in subsections (2) and (3), giving all such details in respect of each donor thereof as are required by the Schedule to be given in respect of a donor of a recordable donation; and
- (b) a declaration under subsection (4) and such other declarations under subsection (5), if applicable.
