Parliamentary Elections (Declaration and Designation of Group Representation Constituencies) Order 2025

No. S 199

Parliamentary Elections Act 1954

Parliamentary Elections
(Declaration and Designation of
Group Representation Constituencies)
Order 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 8A(1) of the Parliamentary Elections Act 1954, the President makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order is the Parliamentary Elections (Declaration and Designation of Group Representation Constituencies) Order 2025 and comes into operation on 28 March 2025.

Declaration and designation of group representation constituencies under section 8A(1) of Act

2.—(1)  This Order gives effect to section 8A(1) of the Act.

(2)  The electoral divisions specified in the first column of the Schedule are declared to be group representation constituencies.

(3)  An election in a group representation constituency specified in the first column of the Schedule is to be held on the basis of a group of such number of candidates as is specified for that group representation constituency in the second column of the Schedule.

(4)  In every group of candidates for an election in a group representation constituency specified in the first column of the Schedule, at least one of the candidates must be a person belonging to the community or one of the communities specified for that group representation constituency in the third column of the Schedule.

Revocation

3.  Revoke the following Orders:

(a) the Parliamentary Elections (Declaration of Group Representation Constituencies) Order 2020 (G.N. No. S 159/2020);

(b) the Parliamentary Elections (Designation of Group Representation Constituencies) Order 2020 (G.N. No. S 160/2020).

Made on 24 March 2025.

By Command,

TAN KEE YONG

Secretary to the Cabinet,
Singapore.

[ELD(A)/4-18; AG/LEGIS/SL/218/2025/9]