- (b) must have as many polling places within the special polling station as the Returning Officer considers necessary for the electors allotted to vote at that polling station to cast their votes at the election.
(4) When the Returning Officer publishes a notice under section 34(6) or 34A(6) of the Parliamentary Elections Act in respect of an electoral division, the Returning Officer must also publish in the Gazette a notice of—
- (a) the location of every special polling station established; and
- (b) the periods during which votes may be cast at each special polling station established.
(5) If the Returning Officer establishes more special polling stations after publishing in the Gazette notice under subsection (4), the Returning Officer must—
- (a) cause notice of every additional special polling station so established to be published in the Gazette at least 2 clear days before polling day; and
- (b) allot to any special polling station those electors subject to COVID-19 stay orders to not leave a boarding premises and not earlier allotted under subsection (2)(b), in any manner the Returning Officer considers expedient.
Poll and voting by stay order electors
6.—(1) Subject to this Act, a poll and voting in an election involving electors subject to COVID-19 stay orders must be conducted, so far as is practicable, in the same manner as that in which a poll and voting at a polling station in Singapore is conducted under Part III of the Parliamentary Elections Act.
(2) The Parliamentary Elections Act applies to a poll and voting at an election involving electors subject to COVID-19 stay orders at special polling stations, subject to the following modifications:
- (a) a reference in section 39(1) of that Act to a polling station allotted to a person is a reference to a special polling station allotted to the elector under section 5(2)(b) or (5)(b);
