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“political office holder” means the holder of the office of—

(a) the Prime Minister;

(b) a Deputy Prime Minister;

(c) a Minister, Senior Minister or Co-ordinating Minister;

(d) a Minister of State or Senior Minister of State;

(e) a Parliamentary Secretary or Senior Parliamentary Secretary;

(f) the Speaker of Parliament or a Deputy Speaker of Parliament;

(g) a Mayor;

(h) a Political Secretary; or

(i) the Leader of the House;

“political party” means a body of persons, corporate or unincorporated, whose object, or one of whose objects, is the promotion of the election to Parliament of a candidate or candidates endorsed by it or an organisation of which it forms part;

“politically significant person” has the meaning given by section 14;

“polling day”, for an election, means—

(a) for a by-election or general election, the day specified—

(i) under section 34 or 34A of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954 in a notice of contested election as the date on which the poll for that by-election or general election (as the case may be) is to be taken in Singapore; or

(ii) under section 50C(3)(b)(ii) or 56C of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954 as the other day that the polling day for an election is postponed to, if that section applies; or