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Final Reminder on Annual Council Election 2020

To: Practitioner Members

  • ELECTION DAY IS TOMORROW, THURSDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2019
  • WHAT TO DO IF YOU DID NOT REGISTER FOR I-VOTING

1. ELECTION TIMINGS ON ELECTION DAY – 24 OCTOBER 2019

Please note that voting is COMPULSORY.

Election day is tomorrow, Thursday, 24 October 2019, between 7am and 7pm (Singapore time, both times inclusive). If you have already registered for i-voting and received a confirmation e-mail, you may cast your vote remotely from your electronic device.

Website: www.lawsociety.org.sg/ivoting/vote.aspx

If you wish to cast your vote via i-voting at the Law Society’s premises, please note that you may only do so between 8am to 6pm (both times inclusive).

The Law Society’s premises is at 28 Maxwell Road, Maxwell Chambers Suites, #01-03, Singapore 069120.

The election timings stated above will be strictly observed.

2. WHAT TO DO IF YOU DID NOT REGISTER FOR I-VOTING

If you did not register, you will have to come to the Law Society’s premises to cast your vote WITHIN the timings stated above. Please bring along your NRIC, Foreign Passport or Employment Pass.

Senior Category

Please refer to the list of eligible voters for Senior Category here.

Middle Category

Please refer to the list of eligible voters for Middle Category here.

Junior Category

Please refer to the list of eligible voters for Junior Category here.

3.IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO CAST YOUR BALLOT

A member who is required to vote but is unable to vote at an election, because he is not in Singapore at the time of the election or has a good and sufficient reason for not doing so, may write to the Registrar, Supreme Court (and not the Law Society of Singapore) AFTER the date of the Election, 24 October 2019.

Implication of I-Voting on Members Overseas

The introduction of the i-voting process does not preclude a member, who is overseas on election day and who fails to vote, from writing to the Registrar (after the date of the election) pursuant to section 50(2)(a) of the Legal Profession Act to request a waiver of the voting requirement.

Delphine Loo Tan
Chief Executive Officer
for and on behalf of
The Council of the Law Society of Singapore
23 October 2019