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NO. 28 OF 2021
- that election until the end of the 31st day after the results of the election are published;
- “competent authority”, in relation to any provision of this Act or the Regulations, means the competent authority appointed under section 105 to exercise powers under that provision;
- “constituency” means an electoral division within the meaning given by the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954;
- “deception” means an intentional or a reckless deception, whether by words or other conduct, and whether as to fact or as to law, and includes—
- (a) a deception as to the present intentions of the person using the deception or any other person; and
- (b) conduct with the intention of causing a computer or an electronic device to make a response that the person is not authorised to cause the computer or electronic device to make;
- “directed towards a political end in Singapore” has the meaning given by section 8;
- “disabling direction” means a direction described in section 31;
- “disgorgement direction” means a direction described in section 38;
- “disposal”, in relation to any property, means any conveyance, transfer, assignment, settlement, delivery, payment or other alienation of property, and includes—
- (a) the allotment of shares in a company;
- (b) the creation of a trust in property;
- (c) the grant or creation of any lease, mortgage, charge, servitude, licence, power, partnership or interest in property;
- (d) the release, discharge, surrender, forfeiture or abandonment, at law or in equity, of any debt, contract or chose in action, or of any interest in property;
